FIABCI-USA serves members in their local markets through local councils across the nation. Feel free to contact these officers for more information about local programs and services in your area.

Click HERE to see the Local Council List

FIABCI brings together real estate professionals on the local, national, and international levels to learn about real estate markets around the world and to do business together.

Some local councils, such as the Atlanta Council, meet monthly (on the 2nd Wednesday of the month) and frequently have speakers from the foreign consulates in Atlanta, such as Sheylla J. Bingham, Consul General of Costa Rica in Atlanta, who spoke in July. The newly energized Phoenix Council held a weekend retreat focused on international networking and marketing.

Other councils meet quarterly or every other month and may use local real estate experts, such as the Chairman of the City Planning Commission for New York City, who spoke to the New York Local Council. The programs of the Dallas/Fort Worth Council underscore the broad base of FIABCI and the various professionals involved in international real estate transactions. Chris Hannah, FRICS, Director of Research for the L&B Group, a German investment and advisory firm, answered "Where in the World to Invest" and shared transaction costs in Europe and risk factors in other countries with his audience. Michael W. McKee, Vice President of the Dallas office of Banque Nationale de Paris, explained the function of a foreign bank in the U.S. and how such a bank could be a resource to FIABCI-USA members.

On of our new councils, Boca Raton, even included the arts in their first General Meeting, which attracted 30 members and guests to the Boca Country Club. Maestro Crafton Beck, of the Boca Pops, addressed the group on the art of romancing Boca Raton to your clients. J. David Pena of AIS America Latina spoke on how to help your client get resident status in a timely manner. International networking preceded the meeting.

This past year has been particularly successful on the local level, with the formation of new councils - such as San Diego, Greenville (SC), Boca Raton (FL), and the Lower Gulf Coast (FL) - and the strengthening of others.