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Dates to Remember June 21:Foreign Buyers Ban Webinar at 2 PM (ET) June 23: APEX Virtual Training at 1 PM (ET) July 1: FPC Stipend Invoice Due July 17 – 20: GAD Institute (Detroit, MI) August 31: NAR NXT Early Bird Registration Ends October 25: RPAC NAR NXT Recognition Transmittal Deadline WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Register Now! Webinar on Foreign Buyers Ban The NAR State and Local Issues Committee is hosting a webinar, June 21 at 2 PM (ET), on the foreign buyer bans popping up across the country. Learn more about this issue from outside experts and hear...

A Fair Housing Grant from the REALTOR® Party enabled Florida’s Royal Palm Coast REALTOR® Association to conduct a symposium on serving clients with special needs. The speakers – a REALTOR® focused on helping clients with disabilities and a builder specializing in barrier-free housing – showed a full house what it means to offer proper standards of care to those whose abilities differ from their own.

Arizona rental households had been paying an average of $51/month in transaction privilege taxes, a burden that negatively affected the state’s property managers, as well as its renters. With housing affordability an increasing concern, Arizona REALTORS® redoubled their efforts to repeal the tax, and with support from an Issues Mobilization Grant, they did.

Check out the REALTOR® Party Association Resource Guide to learn more about community outreach, campaign services, RPAC and political fundraising and grassroots grant, program, education opportunities and much more. Also, review what programs and resources qualify for the new Vote, Act and Invest Core Standards’ requirements. DOWNLOAD TODAY! Please note that some of the links in the REALTOR® Party Resource Guide may not work given the transition from the REALTOR® Action Center to the realtorparty.realtor website.  

Spokane, Washington, was in a housing crisis. A National Association of REALTORS® grant is helping to change that—and earned the city a 2023 Smart Communities Award from Governor Jay Inslee, to boot.

NAR Thanks President Biden for Addressing Housing Supply in State of the Union

On Thursday night, President Joe Biden announced a number of housing initiatives in the State of the Union address (SOTU), calling for a $10,000 tax credit for both first-time homebuyers and people who sell their starter homes; the construction and renovation of more than 2 million additional homes, lower closing costs and cost reductions for renters.

Last summer, in addition to the CE course it normally offers on well and septic system regulations in its rural Virginia region, the Greater Piedmont REALTORS® hosted a field trip: with support from a Rural Outreach Grant from the REALTOR® Party, they put participants on a bus and took them to see three different kinds of septic systems, up-close and personal.

Recording: “Know Before You Go” Webinar for RLM

On Thursday, April 25, the NAR Advocacy Team alongside the Congressional Management Foundation hosted a Know Before You Go Webinar to prepare FPCs, GADs and AEs for the 2024 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings. Joe Harris and Ryan Rusbuldt of NAR’s lobbying team walked through our messaging for Capitol Hill visits and addressed semantics around the legal settlement. Victoria Givens educated the group on how to hold successful Hill meetings and Socar Chatmon-Thomas, Chair of the FPC Advisory Committee discussed logistics during the week including the FPC 50th Anniversary Reception. In case you missed...

In 2022, census data showed that housing inventory in Washington state was the lowest in the country, and the city of Spokane, population 229,000, had only a two- to three-week supply of homes. To help address the crisis, Spokane REALTORS® implemented a National Association of REALTORS® grant to support an objective assessment of market conditions and roadblocks, plus a practical plan for moving forward.

In This Issue: Missed the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings or want to revisit the week in Washington? Check out our roundup. Bipartisan Congressional Real Estate Caucus launches to promote common-sense policies that boost homeownership and property rights. NAR achieves two major wins for property rights at the Supreme Court. NAR continues to advocate for a VA rule change to allow veteran buyers to compensate their professional representative directly.