2025 NAR President Kevin Sears Testifies Before Congress
Real estate professionals are well aware that housing affordability and supply are in short order, but are lawmakers taking appropriate ...
Tag: Housing Policy
Preserving Independence: Protecting Real Estate Professionals’ Right to Work Flexibly
Independent work plays a significant role in the global economy, especially in the real estate industry in the United States. ...
Legislative Round-Up: Road to Housing Advances in Senate; Algorithmic Price-Fixing Banned in 2 States
Editor’s Note: The RISMedia series Legislative Round-Up looks at pending and passed federal and state-level legislation that impacts real estate ...
Supreme Court Lets Stand Landmark Floor Plan Ruling in Major Win for Real Estate Industry
A protracted legal battle over whether real estate professionals can create and share floor plans when marketing homes finally ended ...
Which Homeowners—and Homebuyers—Will Benefit From the New SALT Cap?
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” As ...
Will Trump’s Proposals Reshape the Housing Industry? Real Estate Experts Are on the Fence
When the Trump Administration floated the idea of merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single “Great American Mortgage ...
Buyer Representation Agreements Required by Law in Texas
One of the major rule changes that the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) adopted in August 2024 (following its class-action ...
Bright MLS Chief Economist Analyzes Broader Implications of Federal Actions on Today’s Housing Market
Above: Bright MLS Chief Economist Lisa Sturtevant. Photo by AJ Canaria. While all eyes might be on America’s favorite celebrity ...
Legislative Round-Up: Massachusetts Proposes Broker Oversight Board; New York Limits Institutional Buyers
Editor’s Note: The RISMedia series, Legislative Round-Up looks at pending and passed federal and state-level legislation that impacts real estate ...
States Pioneer New Playbook to Combat Housing Crisis
Three Western states are seeing policy momentum to tackle the nationwide affordable housing crisis, but financing challenges continue to be ...
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