Most international buyers maintain a conservative approach to trusting
real estate sales professionals because some countries do not have
organized real estate protocols and
governing bodies to protect the buyers and sellers.
This might mean passing the ownership of the term to a separate organization that dealt strictly with membership standards for this new, self -
governing, private, registrant «club», or perhaps dividing CREA into two sections, one doing advertising and lobbying for the whole of board -
organized real estate, and the other dealing with maintaining the standards that the new «Realtor» logo would signify.