History
BCREA was established in 1976 as the voice of the province’s real estate boards after the dissolution of the REALTOR® Division of the Real Estate Institute of BC. The organization was originally responsible for the administration of post-licensing real estate education as well as government liaison. BCREA evolved its services to include administering applied practice courses beginning in 1988, producing numerous cpe courses and developing the Professional Development Program (PDP) in 2006. BCREA produced printed newsletters beginning in 1978, hosted the first Political Action Seminar in Victoria in 1988 (which became an annual event in 1998) and developed an online presence in 1995. BCREA adapted the Quality of Life program principles in 2004 to guide policy development and advocacy activities and in 2006 an Economics Department was created to provide statistical and informational services to its members. Over the past 34 years, BCREA has worked to maintain the highest professional standards for REALTORS® through the development of standard forms used in real estate transactions.
Read more about this topic: British Columbia Real Estate Association
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)