The REALTORS Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) is the 2nd largest real estate board in Ontario

Ontario

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 and the 7th largest in Canada

Canada

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, representing over 2400 members in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Burlington

Burlington, Ontario

Burlington , is a city located in Halton Region at the western end of Lake Ontario. Burlington is part of the Greater Toronto Area, and is also included in the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area. Physically, Burlington lies between the north shore of Lake Ontario and the Niagara Escarpment...

 and surrounding areas. The territory served, however, is not exclusive -- there is some overlap in marketing areas with the Toronto Real Estate Board

Toronto Real Estate Board

The Toronto Real Estate Board , founded in 1920, is the largest real estate board in Canada with over 28000 members. TREB's Multiple Listing Service is shared with boards in the surrounding area, namely the Brampton, Durham Region, Mississauga and Orangeville Real Estate Boards.The Toronto Real...

 and Oakville, Milton and District Real Estate Board. As each board requires separate membership and operates its own respective Multiple Listing Service

Multiple Listing Service

A multiple listing service is a suite of services that enables real estate brokers to establish contractual offers of compensation , facilitates cooperation with other broker participants, accumulates and disseminates information to enable appraisals, and is a facility for the orderly...

, there are instances of duplication (arising from interboarding) and limited exposure (e.g., without interboarding, one board's out-of-area listings are not visible in another board's MLS).

In the community, RAHB is the largest fundraiser to the CHML

CHML (AM)

CHML is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 900 AM in Hamilton, Ontario. The station airs a news/talk format branded as AM 900. CHML is owned by Corus Entertainment.- History :...

/Y108

CJXY-FM

CJXY-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 107.9 FM and serving the Hamilton, Ontario market, but licensed to the nearby city of Burlington. The station broadcasts a mainstream rock format as Y108. Its signal can be heard as far north as Toronto and Vaughan and as far south as St....

 Children's Fund, a founding member of the Home Ownership Affordability Partnership (in conjunction with the City of Hamilton and the Threshold School of Building), and administrator of the Karan Barker Memorial Scholarship. In November 2006, RAHB grabbed national headlines for its pledge to send Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons

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 gift certificates to Canadian troops stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Officially founded in 1921, the REALTORS Association of Hamilton-Burlington was previously:

• the Hamilton Real Estate Board
• the Metropolitan Hamilton Real Estate Board
• the Hamilton-Burlington District Real Estate Board

The Association's landmark building on York Boulevard

York Boulevard (Hamilton, Ontario)

York Boulevard is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Formerly known as Highway 2 and Highway 6,starts off in Burlington, Ontario at Plains Road West as a two-way arterial road that wraps around and over the Hamilton Harbour and enters the city of Hamilton in the West-end past...

, was acquired in 1990 for $3.8M.

History

• 1874 - Hamilton Real Estate Association formed - a pre-cursor to organized real estate in Hamilton
• 1921 - Hamilton Real Estate Board founded
• 1949 - first real estate group in Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
   to introduce the Multiple Listing Service
  Multiple Listing Service
  A multiple listing service is a suite of services that enables real estate brokers to establish contractual offers of compensation , facilitates cooperation with other broker participants, accumulates and disseminates information to enable appraisals, and is a facility for the orderly...
  
  
• 1951 - first Photo Co-op System (predecessor to modern day MLS) in Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...