Membership Qualifications & Levels

Membership Qualifications

CREW Calgary membership is multidisciplinary and diverse. In fact, we offer a variety of membership levels to ensure we maintain our broad spectrum of commercial real estate professionals. Applicants must have current direct involvement in one of the primary disciplines of commercial real estate (student members are excluded from this requirement).

"Current direct involvement" means you're:

  • currently working in and actively engaged either exclusively or primarily in commercial real estate (i.e., all or most of such person’s gainful employment or major source of income is in commercial real estate);
  • involved in promoting and contributing to the financial well being of a company;
  • in a managerial, senior level, professional, or revenue-generating position or capacity within the company;
  • in a decision-making or decision-influencing position; or
  • otherwise participating at a professional level in a qualified field of commercial real estate.

Membership Levels

Principal Member
Principal membership shall be available to any individual person who has at least five (5) years' experience in a Commercial Real Estate field, and who - at the time of application, meets the above criteria.

Affiliate (Supplier/Vendor) Member
Any professional who works in a business that provides a service or product to CRE industry. 

Legacy/Retired Member
CREW members who want to remain involved in the chapter and connected to members after retirement.

Associate/Candidate Member
Any professional with less than two of the past five years of current direct involvement. 

Civic Member
Any elected official or any person employed by a local or regional government, other publicly funded agency or subdivision of the state funded with tax revenue, university or other educational institution.

Recent Graduate
Any recent graduate from a qualified field of commercial real estate and has less than two years of experience working within the commercial real estate field.

Student
Students (undergraduate) actively enrolled with in a post secondary qualified field of commercial real estate program.