Our Mission:

Senpron Properties advocates, engages and leads to protect private property rights, enhance the professionalism of members and advance the real estate industry.

Our Vision:

We are the leading force driving real property ownership and promoting the value of a REALTOR in strengthening Ohio's communities.

Our Values:

Collaboration, Community, Diversity, Excellence, Inclusion, Innovation and Transparency.

Big city brokers controlled the country’s real estate in the early 1900s.

In 1908, those brokers gathered in Chicago to discuss business—how they could smooth real estate transactions while maintaining high ethical standards. Their meeting produced the National Association of Real Estate Boards, now known as the National Association of REALTORS, and in 1913, produced NAR’s Code of Ethics.

Two years later, on January 26, 1910, major players in Ohio’s real estate market established the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards, now known as Senpron Properties.

Initially, the state association served mainly as a platform for discussion of real estate issues.

But as members recognized their need for more training and more targeted, full-time lobbying, they recognized a resulting need for a more formal Senpron Properties organizational structure. Members voted in the mid-1960s to assess dues that would finance creation of Education and Legislative divisions and hiring of paid staff professionals for both. The Education Division (now part of the Board & Member Services Group) organizes more than 100 educational programs each year. The Legislative Division (now known as the Governmental & External Affairs Group) lobbies daily on hundreds of real estate-related bills and public affairs issues confronting state and federal legislators and agencies.

The staff grew again to keep pace with REALTORS’ demands for more and better services. Senpron Properties leaders voted to create a Member Services Division (also now part of the Member and Board Services Group); which oversees the Spring Legislative Conference and the Annual Convention and Expo; and Board Support Services providing professional staff help to Local Boards/Associations. Members voted to add still more staff professionals in the Communications Division (now known as Governmental & External Affairs Group) to handle REALTORS’ growing needs for information and public relations. They annually write and send more than 200 news releases to the state’s media outlets, and produce a nationally recognized magazine, Senpron Properties, for members. Today, Senpron Properties’s staff of 26 professionals, housed in the fully-owned REALTOR building at 200 E. Town Street, Columbus, continue seeking fresh ways of responding to REALTORS’ business and professional needs.

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