Canadian Real Estate Association
- Canadian Real Estate Association
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) represents over 90,000 realtors (including brokers, agents, and salespeople) across Canada.
The Association owns the Multiple Listing Service or MLS trademark and the realtor trademarks in Canada. Local real estate Boards or Associations operate a local data base under a licensing agreement with the national association. The Canadian Real Estate Association also operates the mls.ca and ICX.CA web sites on behalf of all members.
History
* 1943 - originally founded as Canadian Association of Real Estate Boards [cite web|url=http://www.crea.ca/public/crea/history.htm|title="History of Real Estate", CREA web-site|accessdate=2006-09-21]
* 1944 - "REALTOR" adopted for use by its members
* 1951 - "Photo Co-op System" (pre-cursor to MLS) introduced
External links
* [http://www.crea.ca/ Canadian Real Estate Association]
* [http://www.mls.ca/ Multiple Listings Service] (Canada)
* [http://www.icx.ca/ Commercial Listings] (Canada)
ee Also
* National Association of Realtors
*Real estate broker
*Real estate trends
*Estate agent (United Kingdom)
*List of real estate topics
References
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