The CEI (Confédération Européenne de l'Immobilier: European Confederation of Real Estate Agents) is one of Europe's largest professional organisation of estate agents, now counting well over 66,000 members from hundreds of cities in fourteen European countries, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Slovak Republic. This represents an overall total of 90,000 operators in real estate. Together with the partner organisations in Central Europe (CEREAN) and the United States (NAR) CEI has an international network for the purpose of all CEI members and the real estate business in Europe.
The Voice of Real Estate in Europe. Its purpose is to establish and improve international cooperation, to advise on issues concerning trans-national real estate transactions and to influence European ruling insofar as this relates to real estate practice. The European Standard of real estate agents Services EN 15733, that has been adopted by CEN, the European Standardisaiton Institute, has been initiated by CEI.