National Association of Estate Agents National Association of Estate Agents The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) is a membership organisation for estate agents "(called real estate brokers in the US)". It is based in and covers the UK. It was founded in 1962 by estate agent Raymond Andrews. It is the UK's leading professional body for estate agents. Its members practice across all aspects of property both in the UK and overseas, including residential and commercial sales and letting, property management, business transfer, auctioneering and land. The NAEA has a licensing scheme that offers consumer protection The NAEA's aims are that it shall: The
Estate agent to the USA called MLS (multi listing service). This is where a main agent will take on a property and send details via the most to other local (sub) agents. The sub agents will market and introduce applicants to the main agent. MLS can achieve more offers, sell a property quicker and is offered by agents as a premium service. In the US property data is passed from the agents software by the RETS data feed schema. In the UK the INEA idx (information data exchange) data feed is being adopted by many software to receive sub (mls) property listings