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The CEI (Confédération Européenne de l'Immobilier: European
Confederation of Real Estate Agents) is one of Europe's largest professional organisation of estate agents,
now counting well over 45,000 members from hundreds of cities in thirteen European countries, Austria, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom and
the Slovak Republic. This represents an overall total of 60,000 operators in real estate.
The Voice of Real Estate in Europe.
Its purpose is to establish and improve international cooperation,
to advise on issues concerning trans-national real estate transactions and to influence European ruling insofar
as this relates to real estate practice.
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- to coordinate European Union policy matters, defending the interests of estate
agents
- to harmonise the laws in Europe regulating admission to the profession
- to harmonise, where possible and in respect of local customs, the practices
of estate agency
- to provide the European estate agent with all those services and information
that are useful to him for the exercise of his profession
- to promote knowledge and international understanding between the Member Associations
and the development of friendly links amongst individual members
- to encourage and coordinate collaboration in property transactions between
members from different countries
- to improve the standard of the profession as a whole, ensuring that property
transactions be conducted by qualified professionals, of high ethical standards.
STANDARDIZATION PROJECT FOR THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS WORKING IN EUROPE Speech of André GROOT, CEI President (2005 November 25th) |
