The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) represents over 100,000 Realtors (including brokers, agents, and salespeople) across Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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The Association owns the Multiple Listing Service

Multiple Listing Service

A multiple listing service is a suite of services that enables real estate brokers to establish contractual offers of compensation , facilitates cooperation with other broker participants, accumulates and disseminates information to enable appraisals, and is a facility for the orderly...

 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 realtor.ca (previously mls.ca) and ICX.CA web sites on behalf of all members.

History

• 1943 - originally founded as Canadian Association of Real Estate Boards
• 1944 - Realtor trademark adopted for use by its members
• 1951 - Photo Co-op System (pre-cursor to MLS) introduced

See also

• National Association of Realtors
  National Association of Realtors
  The National Association of Realtors , whose members are known as Realtors, is North America's largest trade association. representing over 1.2 million members , including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries...
  
  
• Real estate broker
  Real estate broker
  A real estate broker, real estate agent or realtor is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate/real property and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy...
  
  
• Real estate trends
  Real estate trends
  Real estate trends is a generic term used to describe any consistent pattern or change in the general direction of the real estate industry which, over the course of time, causes a statistically noticeable change...
  
  
• List of real estate topics
• REM (Real Estate Magazine)
  REM (Real Estate Magazine)
  REM is a monthly Canadian real estate trade journal. It is commonly referred to by its abbreviated title, "REM" .-History:...
  
  

External links

• Canadian Real Estate Association
• Residential Listings (Canada)
• Commercial Listings (Canada)