Ciputra, Eng., Doctor of Technical Science (Hc.), the founder of Ciputra Group has a strong belief that he has begun his professional career in property business. As he has committed and grown in this property business, everything related to property industry is the main target. Moreover, he manages to put all effort to focus in developing the business empire. Therefore, since 1990 Mr. Budiarsa Satrawinata and Mr. Agussurja Widjaja together with Ciputra, Eng., Hc. were approaching the largest property brokerage franchise company in the world, CENTURY 21 Real Estate Corporation.

It is not an easy thing, earning the trust from CENTURY 21 Corporation. Besides, Indonesia is not widely known yet. However, in the middle of 1990s, Cendant Corporation, a company that being approved as the owner of the biggest franchise in United States, acquired CENTURY 21 Corporation. Cendant was more actively in marketing Century 21 worldwide and in that time people started to know Ciputra, Eng., Hc. since he was the first Indonesian to ran FIABCI, an international developer association.

At last, Ciputra Group gains the trust to be The Master Franchise of CENTURY 21 in Indonesia and to manage the trademark countrywide.