Special Announcement(s): Registration is OPEN for REALTORS® Legislative Meetings! If you have not done so already, please register for the Mid-Year meetings so that you can attend the GAD General Business Meeting on May 11th from 10:00 to 12:00 Central. Breakout sessions for State and Local GADs WILL BE HAPPENING, they will not be listed on the general agenda. You will need to register in advance for those so keep an eye out for posts to the GAD HUB, GAD Facebook page, and other communications for those registration links. RPAC RPAC Major Investor Recognition Make sure you and your members...
GADFly Newsletter – October 2021
Hello GAD Nation! The staff at NAR are excited to welcome everyone for the Annual meetings next month in San Diego, CA! Everyone is hard at work preparing a great agenda for the GAD meetings. The GAD Reception will be held at Vin De Syrah in the Gaslamp Quarter on Friday, November 12th from 5-7pm. The reception venue is only a 12-minute walk to Petco Park where the NAR opening reception will be held from 6-9pm. A quick note about attendance: due to COVID protocols, all GAD Meeting attendees must be fully registered for the conference and expo and abide...
GADFly Newsletter – December 2021
The All-GAD call will be held on January 20, 2022 at 3pm EST. Registration will be required for this call since we will be voting on the GAD Advisory Group Vice Chair nominee(s). The agenda is still being finalized and more info on that will be coming soon. Register in advance for this meeting Questions? Email Jim MacGregor, Director, State and Local Programs. GAD Advisory Group Vice Chair Position As we reported at the GAD Annual Meeting in November and in the last GADFly, our Vice Chair, Brent Swander has been named the new CEO of the Columbus REALTORS and...
GADFly Newsletter – February 2020
In This Issue… Schedule Changes for the 2020 REALTORS® Legislative Meeting GAD Resources & Information RPAC News NAR Economic Outlook Schedule Changes for the 2020 REALTORS® Legislative Meeting Please note the following schedule changes for the May REALTORS® Legislative Meeting. Federal Priority Issues Briefing The Federal Priority Issues Briefing is moving to 4:50 – 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12 immediately following NAR 360 (from its previous 7:00 a.m. Wednesday timeslot.) This important session will now capture a much larger audience already in attendance for NAR 360. In addition, the Legislative Talking Points will be incorporated in NAR 360. These...
REALTOR Party News – January 2022
New Year New Resolve, By The Numbers, Success Stories, and More
GADFly Newsletter – July 022
GAD Institute 2022: Philly by the numbers: 78 New or First Time GAD Attendees 280 Total Registered Attendees 28 Sessions 75 Speakers 3 Receptions None of this would have been possible without the extraordinary work of your GAD Advisory Group! GAD Advisory Group Application Are you interested in serving on the GAD Advisory Group? This is your opportunity to make your voice heard in the professional and personal development of GADs. If you liked the programing at the GAD Institute in Philly, felt topics were missing, have ideas on new formats, or just plain love planning a party – we...
New AE/GAD Advocacy Orientation
Newly hired Association Executives (AEs), Government Affairs Directors (GADs) and those hired to promote and manage REALTOR® Party activities are invited to attend the one-day virtual orientation.
Impact of Broadband on Property Values
NAR Library Reference Request July 17, 2019 Scholarly research Ahlfeldt, G., Koutroumpis, P., & Valletti, T. (2017). Speed 2.0: Evaluating access to universal digital highways. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(3), 586-625. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw013 “This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects in property markets. Our empirical strategy combines a boundary discontinuity design with controls for time-invariant effects and arbitrary macroeconomic shocks at a very local level to identify the causal effect of broadband speed on property prices from variation that is plausibly exogenous. Applying this strategy to a micro...