Real Estate Almanac
Local Associations
The local Realtor association section of the ORE 200 includes a ranking of all the nation’s local Realtor associations by membership count as of December 31, 2020.
Local Associations Overview
As trade associations, Realtor associations are nonprofits owned by their members. They represent their members and aim to help them improve the quality of service they provide, their education and professional standards. The classic Realtor association mission is simple: to make members more profitable and more successful.
Realtor associations come in three varieties, determined by geographic scope: national, state and local. Realtor associations have a federated makeup: members cannot join just one. When agents join a local association, to gain access to the MLS for example, they automatically join the state and national associations; the memberships are tied together in what is known as the three-way agreement.
Source: Real Estate Almanac
There were 1,069 local Realtor associations at the end of 2020, 19 less than existed at the end of 2019 as recorded in the 2020 ORE 200.
The largest local Realtor associations have tens of thousands of members, and subsequently, healthy revenues that allow them to offer quality products and services to members and to play a large and meaningful role in their communities. Examples include the Miami Association of Realtors (over 48,000 members), the Houston Association of Realtors (over 40,000 members) and Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie Realtors (over 33,000 members).
Source: Real Estate Almanac
On the other end of the size spectrum lie small local Realtor associations, which, because of relatively small revenues and resources, can sometimes struggle to offer a core set of services to members and struggle for relevancy. The industry has a large number of these smaller associations. Just over a third of the nation’s local Realtor associations (35 percent or 373 local associations) have less than 200 members.
Smaller local Realtor associations include the Sierra County Board of Realtors in Elephant Butte, New Mexico (21 members), Mid-Valley Association of Realtors in Kewanee, Illinois (18 members), Nolan County Board of Realtors in Austin, Texas (16 members), Deming Luna County Board of Realtors in Deming, New Mexico (11 members) and Clarksdale Board of Realtors in Clarksdale, Mississippi (10 members). T3 Sixty does not imply any of these do not offer members core standards; they are listed just to provide examples of some of the nation’s smallest Realtor associations.
Some local associations are consolidating but not many. From 2020 to 2021 the number of local Realtor associations dropped 1.7 percent. But they are getting larger. Over that same time period, the average member count and median member count of local associations grew 5.6% and 6.4%, respectively.
Year | No. of Local Associations | Median Local Association Member Count | Average Local Association Member Count |
---|---|---|---|
2020 | 1,088 | 360 | 1,279 |
2021 | 1,069 | 1,351 | 383 |
% Change | -1.7% | 6.4% | 5.6% |
Source: Real Estate Almanac
Local Association Memberships
Membership in local Realtor associations is clustered among the largest. Twenty-two percent of the nation’s 1,069 local Realtor associations account for approximately 80 percent of the nation’s total local Realtor association membership. The average size of local Realtor associations at the end of 2020 was 1,351 members while the median size was 383 members. Below is a ranking of the residential real estate brokerage industry’s local associations listed as of December 31, 2020. Sorted by end of year membership.
2021 Rank
Local Realtor Association
2020 EOY Membership
501
Realtor Association of The Greater Pee Dee
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Rank:
Membership:
502
Greater Central Louisiana RealtorsAssociation
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Rank:
Membership:
503
West Metro Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
504
Lakeway Area Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
505
Hamptons North Fork RealtorsAssociation
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Rank:
Membership:
506
Hall County Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
507
Hattiesburg Area Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
508
Bayou Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
509
West Georgia Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
510
San Angelo Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
511
Cheyenne Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
511
Humboldt Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
511
La Crosse Area RealtorsAssociation
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Rank:
Membership:
514
Tri-County Alliance of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
514
Yakima Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
516
Northwest Metro Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
516
Northwoods Assoc of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
516
South Central Arkansas RealtorsAssociation
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Rank:
Membership:
519
Oak Park Area Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
519
West Central Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
521
Durango Area Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
522
Greater Binghamton Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
523
Gaston Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
524
Otsego Delaware Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
525
Pike Wayne Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
526
Yolo County Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
527
Florida Keys Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
528
San Luis Obispo Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
529
Egyptian Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
529
New River Valley Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
529
South Central Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
532
Strafford County Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
532
Sumter Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
534
Flint Hills Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
535
Santa Maria Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
536
Bullhead City Mohave Valley Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
537
Douglas County Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
538
Water Wonderland Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
539
Faulkner County Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
540
Helena Association of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
540
Southwest Virginia Association of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
542
Greater Augusta Association of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
543
Albemarle Area Association of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
543
Union County Association of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
545
Centre County Association of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
545
Hot Springs Board of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
547
Franklin County Board of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
547
Northeast Mississippi Board of Realtors
,
Rank:
Membership:
549
Brownsville South Padre Islands Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership:
550
Southeast Iowa Regional Board of Realtors
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Rank:
Membership: