The 5th edition of the Growth Management Fact Book is now available! This resource provides REALTORS® with factual information and analyses concerning modern growth management (aka Smart Growth), and includes a new section on Vacant Property Regulations. This publication reflects NAR’s belief that REALTORS® must be able to engage with citizens, legislators and government officials […]

REALTORS® are good at promoting communities. Some might say it’s in their DNA. After all, almost every successful home sale includes touting the qualities of the neighborhood, as well as the house.  The 920-member Quad Cities Area REALTOR® Association (QCARA), which covers Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, as well as Rock Island and Moline, Illinois, decided […]

Oklahoma City is experiencing a huge downtown boom, but its infrastructure has not kept up: roads, sewers, and parks are in dire need of improvement, and growth on the outer edges of the metropolis has been stretching available funds away from the city center. As a major General Obligation (GO) Bond and a temporary penny-sales […]

http://malsup.github.com/jquery.cycle2.js “The vision became real – if only for a short time – and we saw what it would be like to bring our Main Street back to life.”  Those were the words of Steve Campbell, an Ottumwa, Iowa, REALTOR® from who spearheaded his board’s involvement in a highly successful Better Block Project in his […]

In early 2017, the NAR Leadership Team created a Presidential Advosory Group (PAG) on the Future of the REALTOR® Party, and charged its 21 members with five responsibilities. Analyze the results of the REALTOR® Party’s first five years of performance (2012-2016); Identify and recommend improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of […]