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About Realtors and misspellings: Realitor and Realator.

Realtors.com and Realtor.com is the website of the national Association of Realtors.

Realitor.com and Realator.com are parked ad sites.

Realtor.ca and Realtors.ca are Canadian Realtor sites.

Realtor is a ® of the Canadian and US Real Estate Association.

Realtor is a frequently-used word in many countries to describe any person or company involved in the real estate trade, regardless of their NAR status or American residence. However, in the United States the National Association of Realtors in 1949 obtained preregistrations for the words realtor and realtors as collective trade marks.

As long as the trademarks are maintained, the words cannot be used in commerce by other parties in a way that is likely to cause confusion as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of goods, services, or commercial activities in the domain of real estate.

The NAR only authorizes usage by National Association of Realtors members or licensees.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR), whose members are known as realtors is North America's largest trade association representing over 1.2 million members (as reported February 2008), including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

National Association of Realtors

NAR's membership is composed of residential and commercial real estate brokers, real estate salespeople, immovable property managers, appraisers, counselors, and others engaged in all aspects of the real estate (immovable property) industry, where a state license to practice is required.

Members belong to one or more of some 1,600 local Associations of Realtors and Boards of Realtors in the 54 state and territory Associations of Realtors. They are pledged to a code of ethics and Standards of Practice, which includes duties to clients and customers, the public, and other Realtors.

The NAR governs the hundreds of local Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) which are the information exchanges used across the nation by real estate brokers. (However, there are many MLSs that are independent of NAR, although membership is typically limited to licensed brokers and their agents.

Through a complicated arrangement, NAR sets the policies for most of the Multiple Listings Services and, in the late 1990s with the growth of the Internet, NAR evolved regulations allowing Information Data Exchanges ((IDX)) whereby brokers would allow a portion of their data to be seen on the Internet via brokers' or agents' websites and Virtual Office Websites (VOW) which required potential buyers to register to obtain information.

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