Unlock the Tools to Grow Your Business 

with CBA

The Commercial Brokers Association (CBA), serving Washington and Idaho, is a broker-owned commercial real estate Multiple Listing Service.

CBA gives our member-owned cooperative of brokers and affiliated professionals essential tools and support to maximize their productivity and success. Since 1977, we have sought out and developed the best resources that the CRE industry has to offer to provide an integrated system of market research, listings services, legal contracts, networking, education, arbitration, and industry advocay.

Our membership includes the top commercial real estate influencers and companies in CRE-associated industries in the Pacific Northwest.

Comprehensive Services. Unbeatable Value.

Gain the tools and resources you need to seize new opportunities, close deals faster, and grow your business—all at an incredibly reasonable price.

TOP-TIER CRE DATA

Access the most comprehensive, verified, and thoroughly researched data available 

to CRE professionals in the Pacific Northwest.

Our members enjoy unlimited, 24-hour access to verified, up-to-date information. Unlike other CRE listings providers, our data is actively verified by our members AND internal staff to ensure the most reliable, comprehensive, highest-quality data.

Members submit and verify all Sale, Lease, and Business Opportunity listings with our staff. In addition, our staff researches all additional available office, industrial, and retail space in buildings over 10,000sf in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Spokane Counties to create the most comprehensive and accurate database of spaces for lease.

CBA's members include real estate professionals from the most prominent CRE firms in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, which gives your listings the best and broadest exposure possible.

Expanded Listing Exposure
 

Showcase all your listings locally and nationally on CommercialMLS.com and CommercialExchange.com, reaching thousands of potential clients.

Website Integration
 

Populate your brokerage's website with CBA’s public data—relied on by over 100 brokerages to showcase their listings effectively.

LEGAL LIBRARY PRO

The Contracts You Need to Close Deals Quickly

Simplify your transactions with access to over 100 customizable, industry-standard legal contracts and forms for Washington and Idaho.

Developed and curated by top commercial real estate legal experts over the last 25+ years for CBA members, Legal Library PRO's contracts and forms are recognized as the industry standard and are the fastest and easiest way to close a deal. Simply put, deals get done faster with CBA Forms!

Forms include Purchase & Sale Agreements, Lease Agreements for Multiple & Single Tenants, Exclusive Listing Agreements, Business Sale Agreements, addendums, commissions, disclosures, and riders. Click here for a full list of our forms.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Dynamic Market Reports with Current and Historical Aggregated Data

Enhance your market knowledge and better serve your clients with Leasing Market and Submarket Reports tailored to your needs. Packaged for independent CRE professionals, these reports are available exclusively to CBA Members at no additional charge. 

From Seattle to Spokane, Boise to Bellingham, and up and down the I-5 Corridor, you can now access dynamic market reports with current and historical aggregated data for the vacancy, absorption, rental rates, and new construction for the vast majority of CBA’s markets for the Office, Industrial, Retail, and Multi-Family asset classes.   

These reports are sourced by REIS, the nation's most trusted provider of commercial real estate market data, research, and analytics, and supplied to CBA through our partnership with Moody’s CRE, the owner of REIS. They are relied upon by institutional lenders, large corporations, institutional owners, government agencies, and the nation’s leading news publications, industry publications, and business journals. 

Powerful Reporting Tools

Generate unlimited, high-quality reports to guide your decisions and impress your clients.

Marketing Made Easy

Leverage user-friendly marketing tools to reach over 4,600 CBA members and expand your visibility.

CBAcma DATABASE ACCESS

Comprehensive CRE Sales Data 

Get free access to CBAcma, a locally researched database covering all recorded commercial sales over $250,000 in the six largest counties in Washington. The database includes all industrial, office, retail, multi-family, and land properties sales recorded in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties since January 2001, and later sales for Kitsap, Spokane, and Thurston Counties.

We also provide quarterly sales reports for the benefit of our members. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION & EVENTS

Moving Your Career Forward

Enjoy member discounts on top-rated CRE education and networking opportunities. Starting January 2025, your membership will include access to our live and on-demand webinar classes at no additional cost. 

CBA provides our members with a wide variety of educational opportunities and networking events, including live classes geared specifically to CRE professionals and online courses to help you easily satisfy real estate licensing requirements. Our offerings include a regular schedule of monthly classes, a yearly day-long forum of essential topics, and online classes members can access at their convenience. Classes cover required state-level core curriculum materials, topics of interest to our members, and courses that speak directly to more specialized areas of commercial real estate.

Our events are designed to elevate your business and standard of practice, so we select convenient local sites and carefully curate expert speakers to ensure you're exposed to and can learn from a unique group of like-minded professionals.

All-Inclusive Continuing Education for Licensed Washington Brokers

Starting January 2025, all active broker members will have unlimited access to CBA’s online courses and live webinars as part of their dues. With over 50 clock hours of classes available, fulfilling your continuing education requirements for license renewals will be easier than ever. We will also keep expanding this library with new, updated content. Watch for more details later this year on accessing this benefit. Free education only applies to paid seats; it is NOT for admins. Applies to licensed brokers only.  

All-Inclusive ARELLO-Certified Continuing Education for Licenses Idaho Brokers

Starting in January, we will offer over 14 hours of ARELLO-certified online classes for active Idaho brokers as part of member dues. Simply log in to your CBA account to access a growing library of certified continuing education courses. In addition, any live classes or webinars approved for Idaho clock hours will be included at no extra cost. We plan to expand this library with fresh, relevant content, including Idaho CORE classes required for renewal. Free education only applies to paid seats; it is NOT for admins. Applies to licensed brokers only.  

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY: INTRODUCING CBAC

Giving Commercial Real Estate a Voice in Policy Decisions

Support your livelihood and the CRE industry through the Commercial Brokers Advocacy Council (CBAC), included in your membership starting January 2025.

In 2025, we will launch the Commercial Brokers Advocacy Council of Washington (CBAC) in partnership with the Washington State Commercial Association of REALTORS® (WSCAR) to protect and advocate the interests of commercial brokers in Olympia. CBAC is a new, non-profit organization, whose sole purpose is representing their legislative needs and ensuring that commercial real estate brokers have a strong voice in policy decisions.

Why CBAC?  

For the better part of 30 years, commercial brokers in Washington have entrusted their state legislative advocacy and lobbying needs and representation to WSCAR®, a commercial overlay board that has been part of Washington REALTORS® and the National Association of REALTORS. Over the past decade, WSCAR’s membership structure has faced challenges, making it harder to fairly represent the needs of commercial brokers effectively. With over 4,000 members, CBA holds the largest concentration of commercial real estate professionals in the state. By partnering with WSCAR and creating CBAC, which will be the state’s largest commercial brokerage advocacy organization, we can unify efforts and provide powerful advocacy tailored specifically to their needs. As a CBA member, you’ll automatically become a CBAC member, ensuring strong representation for their business.

MEMBER NETWORK

Share Market Insights, Stay Ahead of Trends, and Build Relationships that Advance Your Career.

Since 1977, we have been bringing CRE professionals together for a common purpose – to share market insights, learn about key trends, network, and inspire one another. Our members represent CRE professionals at every point in their careers. Instantly contact your peers, learn from veteran members of the CRE community, and reach out to the person sitting on the other side of a deal.

MEMBER RULES

Benefit from clear rules for member cooperation & compensation.

CBA's Rules and Regulations, which are enforced by our Rules Committee and Board of Directors, help to ensure that all our members act in accordance with a strict standard of transparent member guidelines. When you work with a fellow CBA member, you can be confident that your negotiations will adhere to a common code and practice.

ARBITRATION SERVICES

Settle disputes quickly and efficiently.

If a commission dispute arises between CBA members, members can leverage Dispute Resolution services, a peer-based process designed to quickly and inexpensively settle disputes through a fair and comprehensive Mediation and Arbitration process.

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We are the only commercial information and data platform in the market that: 

• Is independently owned and governed by our members, for the benefit of our members
• Has rules and regulations to provide structure as well as a clear path to cooperation and compensation
• Develops and partners with the best resources that the CRE industry has to offer to provide an integrated system of market research, listings services, legal contracts, networking, education, association management services, arbitration, and industry lobbying efforts
• Acts as THE hub for the local commercial real estate community and provides a trusted source of industry information
• Provides the most comprehensive and market standard library of legal forms and contracts for commercial real estate transactions in Washington and Idaho
• Offers arbitration services to members for commission disputes via a panel of your peers
• Proudly provides a locally based team of support professionals and staff
• Strives to provide ALL members the most essential tools and personalized service for the most reasonable price in the market

CBA benefits ALL CRE brokers and affiliated professionals. As a broker-owned co-op, our members’ feedback and needs count.  

We provide the most comprehensive, highest quality, researched and verified data available to CRE professionals for the lowest possible cost.  And unlike the Commercial Information Exchanges (CIE), our MLS data is owned by you! We exist only for the benefit of our members. And we also give you additional valuable services and information at no extra cost.  

In fact, our listings data is often more accurate than CIE providers because each member listing is based on a signed, exclusive listing agreement and our members are required to update their listings on a monthly basis. We also remove all expired listings promptly. CIE’s don’t always remove expired listings, which wastes your time and, ultimately, costs you money.