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The TRREB Beginnings:
1920–1945

The First Multiple Listing Service®

A Multiple Listing Service® in the 1920s? Long before computers and condos, real estate brokers regularly gathered to share information about properties they were trying to sell. Eventually, the first MLS® System was born. TRREB veterans from the early days remember doing everything manually and going through reams of carbon paper. Then came cellphones and fax machines. TRREB has continuously innovated to keep up with the times, leading the industry in the process. Today, the Multiple Listing Service® provides Members with a timely inventory of available properties and other related realty information. 

Did you know?

  • In 1923, TRREB Members endorsed Daylight Saving Time by a unanimous vote and wrote a memo to the mayor informing him of their viewpoint (The Globe, March 8, 1923)

1922, newspaper headlines, The Globe