Sumter Board of Realtors

What Sumter Board of Realtors does

Sumter Board of REALTORS® (SBOR) is a nonprofit professional membership association serving licensed real estate agents, appraisers, and affiliated service businesses across Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee counties in southeast South Carolina. The organization is chartered as a local board of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and the South Carolina Association of REALTORS® (SCR), and its stated mission is to educate, support, and serve its members and the community while enforcing the NAR Code of Ethics and protecting private property rights.

SBOR's core offering is a member services platform rather than a discrete software product. It operates four searchable online directories — a REALTOR® Directory, REALTOR® Office Directory, Appraiser Directory (26 listed), and Affiliate Directory (39 listed) — that connect consumers with member agents and allied businesses such as mortgage providers, attorneys, home inspectors, pest control firms, and insurance providers. The platform is delivered through the GrowthZone association management system, which also powers a gated member portal, an events calendar hosting training and networking programming (14 events listed for July 2026 – July 2027), and consumer-facing educational content. Educational offerings include mandatory New Member Orientation, recurring Lunch & Learn and Sip & Learn sessions with partner organizations (e.g., NAF, Shuler Law Firm), and Broker A/B licensing courses hosted in partnership with Carolina Real Estate Academy at $500 per course.

The organization's revenue model is not publicly disclosed but is consistent with a standard local REALTOR® association: annual member dues from REALTOR® and affiliate members, supplemented by event registration fees, hosted course revenue, and directory-driven referrals. Headcount is listed as 501-1,000, which appears inconsistent with the scale of a single three-county local board and likely reflects a data artifact; no management team, ownership, or financial disclosures are available. SBOR has no disclosed funding history, no M&A activity, no proprietary technology, and no AI capabilities. Its competitive position rests on its NAR/SCR affiliation, local monopoly across its catchment, and the enforcement and convening functions NAR delegates to chartered local boards.

Name

Sumter Board of Realtors

Legal name

Sumter Board of REALTORS®

Website

https://sumterboardofrealtors.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Sumter Board of REALTORS® is a nonprofit local REALTOR® association serving licensed agents, appraisers, and affiliate businesses across Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee counties in South Carolina. It operates member directories, ethics enforcement, and continuing-education programming on the GrowthZone platform under NAR/SCR affiliation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sumter

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

No concrete source data available. Based on the entity name, the organization likely provides membership, professional standards/ethics oversight, member directory/listing services, and continuing education for real estate professionals in the Sumter, South Carolina market.

Product overview

The Sumter Board of REALTORS® operates a member services platform consisting primarily of directory services and member resources. The core offerings include the REALTOR® Directory, REALTOR® Office Directory, Appraiser Directory, and Affiliate Directory, which collectively serve as searchable databases connecting consumers with real estate professionals and related service providers. Additional services include an Events Calendar for member training and networking, a Consumer Resources portal with educational content, and a gated Member Portal for exclusive member access. The organization does not offer a proprietary software product but rather serves as an association platform built on the GrowthZone content management system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• REALTOR Membership Annual membership category that entitles the licensee to use the REALTOR trademark, access local MLS services, participate in the Sumter board, and receive ethics and professional-standards coverage. No source data confirmed the offering's specifics.
• Continuing Education / Designation Courses Licensing-required and elective real estate education and designation courses delivered to local licensees. No source data confirmed the offering's specifics.
• Member / Affiliate Directory Searchable online directory of member REALTORS and affiliated service providers (lenders, appraisers, inspectors) used by consumers and referral partners to find local professionals. No source data confirmed the offering's specifics.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Association of REALTORS® (NAR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational governing body for REALTORS® that provides membership benefits, Code of Ethics standards, research and statistics, and policy framework. SBOR is a local board affiliated with NAR.
• South Carolina Association of REALTORS® (SCR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState-level association providing advocacy, education resources, and handling grievance and professional standards complaints for member boards including SBOR.
• SCLLR (South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation - Real Estate Commission)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState regulatory body overseeing real estate licensing and regulations. Referenced for licensing requirements and compliance.
• City of Sumter, SCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal government partner providing local resources and community information to residents and businesses.
• Sumter County, SCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCounty government partner providing local resources and community information.
• Clarendon County, SCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdjacent county government partner in the service area.
• Lee County, SCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdjacent county government partner in the service area.
• Sumter Economic Development BoardminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal economic development organization supporting business growth and development in the Sumter area.
• Carolina Real Estate AcademyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThird-party education provider offering Broker A and Broker B courses. SBOR hosts these courses for member professional development at $500 per course.
• NAF (National Association of Fee-Based Professionals)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for Lunch & Learn educational sessions on specialized topics like manufactured housing.
• Shuler Law FirmminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal law firm hosting Sip & Learn educational events for members.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• National Association of REALTORS® (NAR): National governing body for REALTORS® to which SBOR is affiliated; provides Code of Ethics standards, advocacy, and the membership framework that SBOR operates within, making it the parent-tier peer in the same association network.
• Realtor.com: Consumer-facing real estate portal operated by Move, Inc. under NAR. While not a local board, it is the national consumer-surfacing layer that sits on top of the local-board directory model SBOR participates in, framing the consumer-referral channel.
• Bright MLS: Large regional multiple listing service serving the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Southeast. Comparable as the upstream data and listing infrastructure that SBOR members depend on for transaction workflow in the region.

Direct peers

• South Carolina Association of REALTORS® (SCR): State-level REALTOR® association for South Carolina. Handles grievance and professional standards appeals for member boards including SBOR, delivers advocacy and education resources, and is structurally comparable to a board like Sumter at a higher geographic tier.

Regional players

• Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS®: Local REALTOR® board serving the Charleston, SC region. Operates the same member-directory, education, and ethics-enforcement model as SBOR but in a larger, more urban South Carolina market — directly comparable on product and business model.
• Greater Greenville Association of REALTORS®: Local REALTOR® board serving the Greenville, SC area. Runs member directories, professional standards, and education programming analogous to SBOR's offerings, making it a same-state peer with comparable product scope.
• Columbia Board of REALTORS®: Local REALTOR® board covering the Columbia, SC market. Closest geographic peer to SBOR within South Carolina and operates an essentially identical member-services, directory, and education platform.

Others

• GrowthZone: SaaS association-management platform that powers SBOR's website, member directories, event calendar, and member portal. Comparable as the enabling technology layer for local REALTOR board operations.
• Wild Apricot: Membership and association-management software used by many small professional associations. Functionally adjacent platform vendor that competes for the same member-management workload GrowthZone handles for SBOR.
• MemberClicks: Association-management software targeted at small-staff associations, including professional and trade groups. Comparable as an alternative platform option to GrowthZone, addressing the same member-directory and event-management workflows used by SBOR.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/SBOREALTORS
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sumter-board-of-realtors%C2%AE/?viewAsMember=true
• Instagraminstagram.com/sumterboardofrealtors

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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