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The Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB) is a non-profit professional association of registered real estate brokers and salespeople in the Ottawa area. OREB was formed in 1919 and incorporated in 1921. In 1982 the name was changed to Real Estate Board of Ottawa-Carleton and back to the Ottawa Real Estate Board in 2000.

Ottawa’s Co-operative Listing service was created in 1949 and the name changed to Multiple Listing Service in 1963.

Members
Members of OREB are licensed by the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) to trade in real estate in Ontario.

Members and member offices can be found by using the search function on the home page of its website. All members of the Board are also members of the Ontario and Canadian Real Estate Associations, and as such, are permitted to use the term REALTOR®. The REALTOR® and MLS® trademarks are owned by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).

Mandate and Board Services
OREB's Mission Statement is "to foster a professional environment to enable the members to carry out their practice of real estate".

OREB administers Ottawa’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) system, which uses the MLXchange software known to allow members to enter and manage their listings.

Other Board services include the in-house advertising tabloid Ottawa Real Estate Guide and access to GeoWarehouse, the electronic database of Ontario land registry offices.