Lubbock Association of Realtors marks 100 years - fox34.com

LAR was founded in 1926, and the group now represents more than 1,700 real estate professionals and industry partners across West Texas. Guests from the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce joined the 11 a.m. Event, which doubled as a look back at the association's history and a nod toward where the industry goes next.

Over the past century, LAR has pushed for private property rights, worked to set professional standards for agents, and helped expand homeownership opportunities across the region. For an association tied to a fast-growing area like Lubbock, where new subdivisions keep spreading toward the edges of town, that kind of institutional presence matters more than most people realize.

For homebuyers and sellers here, LAR functions as the backbone behind the agents they work with, setting the rules and training that shape how real estate gets done locally. LAR's growth over the past century tracks pretty closely with Lubbock's own expansion from a regional farm town into a city with a real housing market. The ribbon cutting was a small ceremony, but it marked a full century of an organization that most residents interact with indirectly every time they buy a house.

A hundred years old, and still cutting ribbons instead of retiring.