Financial Readiness

NAR supports the goals outlined in Promoting Financial Success in the United States: National Strategy for Financial Literacy, which are designed to increase financial literacy to empower school-aged children and young adults to build financial knowledge, skills, and habits that will help them make sound financial decisions and prepare them…...

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Brownfields Clean up and Reinvestment

NAR believes it is important for state and local governments to support and encourage the cleanup of Brownfields by providing tax and other economic incentives. These incentives are necessary to attract private investment to abandoned properties and to compensate for the risk of investing in contaminated land – typically surrounded…...

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Leading with Diversity Workshop

This three-hour session for state association leaders and staff helps develop and articulate a business case for inclusion and diversity, define what diversity means in your community and move your association along its path to inclusion of diversity in your leadership. Workshop participants weigh the benefits of working with local…...

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Sign Ordinances

REALTORS® have the right to advertise properties and use For Sale signs, and NAR opposes efforts to restrict such activity....

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VA Home Loan Guaranty

NAR continues to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to allow veterans to be on a level playing field with other buyers....

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Tort Reform/Class Action

NAR supports legislative proposals to establish caps limiting noneconomic and punitive damage awards and standards for the assignment of certain class action lawsuits to federal court....

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Waters of the US (WOTUS)

NAR supports legislation and regulation to clearly define what “waters” are under the jurisdiction of the federal government....

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Terrorism Insurance

NAR supports and urges Congress to continue to authorize the federal terrorism risk insurance program....

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Wildfires

NAR encourages active forest management practices that return the ecological benefits of fire to forested areas, bring balance to our nation’s firefighting policies, and protect homes and communities in the wildland/urban interface....

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Small Business Issues

NAR supports policies that assist REALTORS® and the small-business clients commercial real estate practitioners work with access financing and other assistance to make their businesses successful. This includes access to small business loans and emergency relief, as well as education and counseling resources through the Small Business Administration....

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