NAR is tracking the potential impacts of various state legislation banning foreign buyers from purchasing real estate. While the language used in state bills is wide-ranging, with differences in who is covered and what types of properties are included, the concern among REALTORS® is consistent.
Many of these laws are silent as to liability for those facilitating a transaction, like REALTORS®, and because these laws are new and untested, it is difficult to predict how, and against whom, they will be enforced.
Read the Issue Spotlight to learn more about the legislative landscape and how REALTOR® associations are advocating for members.
Read the comment letter NAR submitted to the Treasury Department in response to the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States’ (CFIUS’s) proposed rule expanding its jurisdiction and review of real estate transactions near military installations.
Watch a webinar (July 2023) hosted by NAR’s State and Local Issues Policy Committee.