Affiliated Real Estate Groups
The Santa Clara County Association of REALTORS® developed a proactive Equal Opportunities Committee in 2003, now the Strategic Parnerships & Diversity Alliance Committee. The goal of that committee was to reach out to a diverse cross section of REALTORS® in Santa Clara County and communicate with them more effectively the benefits of SCCAOR as well as mentor leaders from different cultures. The Committee is also dedicated to helping affiliated groups get more exposure to the overall SCCAOR membership, as well as helping to form new real estate groups. Below you will find more information about the various real estate affililated groups as well as contact information for each one. You can also access a folder with valuable information about starting a real estate affiliated group. For more information about the activities of the Strategic Parnerships & Diversity Alliance Committee or for information about starting your own group, please contact Gloria Brown at gloria@sccaor.com.
Minority Partners of REALTORS®
African American Economic Development Association of REALTORS® and Affiliates: www.aaedara.com.
The African American Economic Development Association of REALTORS® and Affiliates (AAEDARA) is an organization dedicated to serving the needs of the community. Our mission is to reach out to the community members to increase homeownership, to establish a foundation to assist youth and to provide resources for the elderly.
We represent the real estate interests of our members and the public, enhancing members' professionalism, competency, and profitability.
Asian Real Estate Association of America: www.areaa.org
The Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) is a national trade association committed to enhancing business opportunities and success of real estate professionals serving the Asian American community. Formed in 2003, AREAA is dedicated to promoting homeownership opportunities among the many Asian American communities throughout the nation.
Filipino American Real Estate Professionals Association (FAREPA): www.farepa.com
National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals: www.nahrep.org
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) is a national trade association comprised of more than 10,000 real estate professionals in 44 states, committed to helping Hispanics increase homeownership through education, advocacy, and educational development. Founded in 1999, NAHREP is dedicated to improving the business success of Hispanics in the real estate profession and increasing the Hispanic homeownership rate by empowering real estate professionals that serve Hispanic consumers.
Hispanic Association of Real Estate Professionals: www.haragroup.com
The Hispanic Association of REALTORS® (HARA) and Affiliates is a professional trade association dedicated to supporting the needs of the Hispanic Real Estate Professional through education and advocacy of its members. Founded in 2003, HARA has a growing membership of over 200 already. HARA brings together real estates best and brightest minds preparing its members to conduct business in the new culturally diverse America.
National Association of Real Estate Brokers: www.nareb.com
The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) is the oldest minority national trade association comprised primarily of African American real estate brokers, agents, property managers, appraisers, developers, mortgage brokers and bankers, and others dedicated to enhancing the economic advancement of its members and the minority and underserved communities it serves. Founded in 1947, NAREB is headquartered in Lanham, Md., in the suburbs of the nation's capital and has chapters in more than 60 major metropolitan areas. It advocates for ''Democracy in Housing'' and has been and continues to be the leading proponent of affordable and accessible housing for African Americans and others in the markets its members serve.
Chinese-American Real Estate Association: www.carea.org
The Chinese-American Real Estate Association (CAREA) was formed in the San Francisco Bay Area to promote the social and economic well-being of Chinese-Americans actively engaged in the field of real estate sales and brokerage, property management, mortgage banking, real estate development, and real estate syndication.
Regular activities of the Association include both dinner meetings and lunch seminars. Dinner meetings are general membership meetings that feature speakers discussing contemporary and critical real estate issues. These meetings are educational and informative as well as providing a forum for meeting and mixing with other Chinese-American Real Estate Professionals. Programs are instituted to increase business among our members such as exchanging of listings, information, ideas, and intra-organizational real estate activities.
We are accepting applications for membership now. If you are interested in joining our association, please fill out the application on the back page and mail it with your check for the amount of membership dues to CAREA.
Vietnamese American Real Estate Professionals Association (VAREPA): www.varepa.org
Represents the real estate interest of its members and the public. It enhances members professionalism, competency and profitability; and it advocates governmental policies which improve the industry's market environment and the public's real property rights and ownership.
Women's Council of REALTORS®: www.wcrsv.org
The Women's Council of REALTORS® (WCR) are a community of real estate professionals creating business opportunities, developing skills for the future, and achieving our individual potential for success. The Santa Clara County chapter is one of the largest in the country. Monthly luncheons are held at Three Flames Restaurant on Meridian on the third Wednesday of the month .
Objectives of the group include:
> Designing educational programs and seminars to assist members to attain greater financial security; thus encouraging members to make a total commitment to a productive career in Real Estate.
> Developing and expanding capabilities of members to assume leadership roles.
> Building a support system nationally through development of active local and state chapters.
> Encouraging active participation and involvement in local boards, state associations and the National Association of REALTORS®.
> Promoting the highest degree of professionalism through knowledge and understanding of and adhering to the code of ethics of the National Association of REALTORS®.
South Asian Real Estate Association of America: www.sareaa.com
SAREAA provides the consumers a web based countrywide database of real estate professionals who speak South Asian languages and or understand the real estate needs of the South Asian communities. The users will be able to search the database of real estate practitioners easily by visiting the web site.
SAREAA is also developing SAHARAA, a multilingual resource center that will help both the consumers and real estate practitioners & affiliated businesses understand the real estate and mortgage processes in their language of choice. The consumers can visit the web site www.saharaa.org and learn about the home buying, selling, mortgage loan and other financial assistance programs by choosing the language of their choice, that is, English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu or Bengali.
Korean Associan of Real Estate Agents and Lenders
Miwan Kim, 2007 President
Korean Association of REALTORS®
408-221-6747