New Bill Would Remove Capital Gains Taxes for Most Homesellers
Capital gains taxes—the tax on profits received from the sale of an asset like a home—are one of the biggest ...
Tag: Housing Policy
Will Trump’s Flurry of Housing Proposals Move the Needle on Affordability?
President Donald Trump has floated several controversial ideas to help make housing affordable again. But his latest pitch—allowing Americans to ...
Manufactured Housing Energy Standards Lifted in Newly Passed Bill
Manufactured and modular housing have been embraced as one solution to reaching housing affordability, due to their ease to build ...
2025’s Biggest Stories in Real Estate: Part One
Editor’s note: this is part one of a two-part series—look for part two in our upcoming newsletters. 2025 was another ...
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 ...
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 ...
21 Ways to Create a Recruiting 2.0 Culture
Recruiting and retention chases agents. Selection and development chooses them, invests in them and gives them a reason no split can match. Read more.
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