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Mission Statement: To further enhance professionalism by encouraging Realtors® to embrace the global market place.

Welcome to the International Council of the Staten Island Board of Realtors®

Mission Statement: To further enhance professionalism by encouraging Realtors® to embrace the global market place.

The International Council strives to provide SIBOR members with resources that will allow them to participate fully in the evolving local and international markets. SIBOR members are provided with education programs, workshops, annual conferences, and association web sites at the Local, State and National levels.

SIBOR International Real Estate Conference

Each year the Council hosts the SIBOR International Real Estate Conference. National and International panelists with backgrounds in various aspects of global markets, (including brokerage, legal, cultural diversity and finance) participate in this symposium and networking event.

International Ambassador Association to the Ukraine

SIBOR is the Realtor® Ambassador Association to the Ukraine. The Ambassador Association program, which is run by the National Association of REALTORS®, links more than 80 organized real estate associations around the world with U.S. Realtor Ambassador Associations which frequently become involved in assisting in the development of organized real estate in a country or in organizing a country’s real estate association; as well as, providing business opportunities across international borders for buyers and sellers of real estate.

International Listings
on REALTOR.com®

SIBOR
is a partner with the National Association of REALTORS® and
REALTOR.com® to offer consumers a global website that expands
the exposure of U.S. listings to international markets and offers international
listings, translation services, and area/currency conversion.

What this means for U.S.
REALTORS® and U.S. buyers:

True global exposure
– The global site increases the visibility of REALTOR®.com around the world and
allows the millions of Americans buying abroad to view property listings in the
familiar REALTOR.com® format.
Customized
experience – buyers from all over the world are able to view properties in
their preferred format – language, currency, and units of measurement.

REALTOR.com® International
Highlights:

All for-sale and
rental listings on REALTOR.com® are displayed on the
International site.
Consumers are able
to search for properties in over 11 countries in 11 languages: Chinese, Dutch,
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and
Spanish.
Visitors’ language,
measurement, and currency preferences can be saved as a default to facilitate
future visits.
Visitors have the
choice to search by city name or map search, using a drill-down feature to
select a geographical region.