About WCBR
Founded in 1916, the Westchester County Board of REALTORS®,
Inc. (WCBR Inc.) is a not-for-profit trade association representing more
than 7,000 real estate professionals doing business in Westchester County
and the surrounding region.
The term REALTOR®
is a registered mark. It refers only to those licensed real estate brokers
and salespersons who hold membership in a REALTOR® organization
such as ours, who agree to be held accountable to a strict Code
of Ethics, and who also agree to periodic ethics education and other
professional instruction that is required by the Board.
WCBR
provides a wide range of services and programs to its members and to the
general public. These include:
- Together
with the Putnam
County Association of REALTORS®, WCBR owns and operates
the Westchester- Putnam Multiple Listing Service, Inc. a corporation
that manages a large database of available properties listed by REALTORS®
in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties. Information about these
properties is available to the general public on a number of Internet
real estate sites including www.realtor.com,
(www.realtor.com/westchester)
and www.LOHUD.com.
- WCBR publishes
extensive statistical information
about and analysis of Westchester’s and Putnam’s housing markets based
on data from the multiple listing service.
- The Board operates
the School of Real Estate, one
of the largest real estate education centers in New York, providing
continuing and general education to REALTORS®, and real
estate licensing courses to the general public. Courses are available
in classroom settings as well as on CD-ROM and on-line.
- The Board maintains an arbitration
and ethics hearing service
for resolving disputes between REALTORS® and complaints
by customers and clients against REALTORS®.
(How to file a complaint)
- The Board aggressively advocates for legislation and regulation to
facilitate home ownership opportunities, trouble-free real estate transactions,
lower ownership costs, sensible development, and other real estate issues
that are in the public interest.
- WCBR maintains a Commercial Investment
Division that provides programs in support of its members who are
specialists in commercial real estate.
- WCBR publishes Real Estate In-Depth,
a real estate newspaper that is available to non-members on a subscription
basis. The Board also runs general seminars for its members and the
public, and sponsors real estate trade shows.
The organization is governed by an elected Board of Directors and is managed
by a professional staff of 15 persons at its White Plains headquarters.
The Westchester Board is a member of the New
York State Association of REALTORS® and the National
Association of REALTORS®. |