Summary:
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) is one of Canada's largest single-industry trade associations, representing more than 65,000 real estate brokers/agents and salespeople working through 112 real estate boards, 10 provincial associations and one territorial association.
The associations owns the MLS trademark, has proprietary ownership of the REALTOR trademark, and operates national web sites including MLS.CA for residential properties and CLS.CA for commercial listings across Canada.
Summary:
The Ontario Real Estate Association represents 31,000 brokers and salespeople who are members of the provinces 43 real estate boards. OREA serves its members through a wide variety of publications, educational programs and special services. The association provides all real estate licensing courses in Ontario.
OREA was founded in 1922 to organize real estate activities and develop common goals across the province. These goals included promoting higher industry standards, protecting the general public from unscrupulous brokers and salespeople, and preserving private property rights.
Summary:
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) was founded 80 years ago by a small group of real estate practitioners who aimed to establish professional standards in the industry. Today, as North America's largest full service Real Estate Board, TREB services more than 17,500 members.
Guided by a 16-member Board of Directors, TREB strives to continuously deliver the highest quality services to its Member Realtors, which include a Multiple Listing Service, Communications, Education, Ethics, Arbitration and Government Relations.