Central Carolina REALTORS® Association

The Greater Columbia Association of REALTORS®, dba Central Carolina REALTORS® Association (CCRA), was chartered July 28, 1913 by the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, the organization that is today known as the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). The term “realtor” was not yet in use at the time of NAR’s founding in 1908, but was coined in 1916 by member Charles Chadbourn to distinguish the class of real estate professional affiliated with the association. At its 1913 inception, CCRA was called the Columbia Real Estate Board; on November 10, 1964, it was granted the right to be designated a Board of Realtors® under the provisions of NAR’s constitution and by-laws. It operated as the Columbia Board of Realtors® through 1990, and in 1991 became the Greater Columbia Association of REALTORS®. In 2007, the Board of Directors began to consider a name change that would better reflect the geographic diversity of the Association’s members. On December 13 of that year, the board voted to adopt the operating name Central Carolina REALTORS® Association.