National Association of Realtors

Code of Ethics: Only realtors are held to the National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics, ensuring that when a buyer or seller hires a realtor, they can be certain they are enlisting the services of someone possessing the highest level of professional and ethical standards in the industry. Continuing ...

Charles Pecka, 2018 president of the Clarksville Association of Realtors, informed the commissioners that CAR has procured grant funding from the National Association of Realtors to support the local political action committee "Our United Community" in its endeavor to seek passage of a metropolitan ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) The Clarksville Association of Realtors announced grant funding from the National Association of Realtors that will provide $50,000 to Our United Community, a committee working for the passage of the Clarksville/Montgomery County Metropolitan Government ...

"Working with seniors to meet their housing needs requires an expert understanding of their lifestyle and financial needs, and the SRES® designation means that a Realtor® has that understanding," said Bill Brown, the President of the National Association of Realtors. "Whether they are buying, selling ...

The economy is booming. Interest rates are still affordable. Unemployment is at the lowest level in more than 15 years. So why is the percentage of folks who think it's a good time to buy a house at the lowest point in two years? In a first-quarter survey by the National Association of Realtors, only about half ...

Sales of existing homes in the United States were up in February after two months of declines, according to the National Association of Realtors. The organization said that while wintry conditions kept sales down in the Northeast and Midwest, strong performances in the South and West offset those declines ...

Contracts to buy previously owned homes rose in February, the National Association of Realtors said. The NAR's pending home sales index increased to a reading of 107.5, up 3.1 percent from the prior month. January's index was revised to 104.3 from 104.6. Published 10:00 AM ET Wed, 28 March 2018 ...

The numbers: Pending-home sales rose 3.1% to 107.5 in February, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Economists had forecast a 3.0% increase. What happened: NAR's index, which tracks real-estate transactions in which a contract has been signed but the transaction hasn't closed, ...

It was the largest decline on an annual basis in over three years, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, fell 4.7 percent to 104.6 in January from a downwardly revised 109.8 in December 2017.

But higher interest payments have yet to do much damage to demand for homes. The National Association of Realtors reported last week that sales of existing homes rose 3 percent in February. New home sales dropped for the third straight month in February, the Commerce Department reported Friday, ...

At the state level, Connors has served on many committees such as professional standards, risk reduction, multiple listing issues and policies, executive, legislative policy, fair housing and cultural diversity. Nationally, she served as a director for the National Association of Realtors in 2016 and on the State ...

A: It is very important for a Realtor to be a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and its affiliates such as the San Francisco Association of Realtors. NAR, the largest trade association in America, has a collective voice of 1.3 million commercial and residential professionals. Members adopt ...

John O'Leary, Harold Marmon and Tricia Sulecki are all members of the Sussex County Association of Realtors, the Delaware Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. To reach O'Leary, Marmon or Sulecki, visit Coldwell Banker Resort Realty at 20184 Coastal Highway in Rehoboth ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After seeing a modest three-month rise in activity, pending home sales cooled considerably in January to their lowest level in over three years, according to the National Association of Realtors. All major regions experienced monthly and annual declines in contract signings last month. The Pending ...

It is now a matter of providing necessary skills to go into the industry," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors , in a report. But Nixon added that many consumers and businesses may have been spending more in the past few months and that employers have ramped up ...

Those comparisons revealed the five most- and least-affordable markets for buying a home. The lists were compiled using data from the National Association of Realtors, the Census Bureau and NerdWallet surveys. MOST AFFORDABLE METRO AREAS. 1. CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND-WEST VIRGINIA.

Factors considered in the selection process include member/board service, real estate educational achievements, sales performance and business achievements, involvement with Illinois Realtors and the National Association of Realtors, and civic and political involvement. Lilley has been an active Illini ...

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday delivered a letter of support in favor of a proposed U.S. Department of Labor rule that could potentially pave the way for the trade group to create an Association Health Plan through which its self-employed Realtor members could receive more ...

In the year between April 2016 and March 2017, Chinese buyers spent $31.7 billion on residential real estate in the United States—the most of any foreign buyer group, according to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report. But since mainland China tightened restrictions in August 2017 on how ...

An influx of new construction at all price points could save us from the current housing crunch, but the hefty new tariffs on imported steel announced this week by President Donald Trump, on top of a tariff on Canadian lumber imposed late last year, could make the crunch even worse—and drive up home ...

You may know that members of the National Association of Realtors adhere to a strict Code of Ethics that holds them to higher professional standards than what state and federal law require. However, you may not know that the Code of Ethics was recently amended to prohibit Realtors from discriminating ...

Factors considered in the selection process for the Realtor of the Year Award include member/board service, real estate educational achievements, sales performance and business achievements, involvement with Illinois Realtors and the National Association of Realtors, and Civic and Political involvement ...

WASHINGTON — The pace of Americans signing contracts to buy homes fell 4.7 percent in January to its lowest level in more than three years, due to a lack of homes for sale, higher prices and rising mortgage rates. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its index of pending sales sank ...

Several members and local chapters of the National Association of Realtors sent comment letters to the Labor Department supporting a proposed rule to expand association health plans. The proposal, which is in the comment phase until March 6, would change the definition of “employer” to make it easier ...

“What you're seeing in Toledo is very, very similar to what we're seeing in most of the country, especially out west,” said Adam DeSanctis, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors. According to NAR figures, inventory in the U.S. has been dropping, like in Toledo, each month for three years.

The National Association of Realtors' 2008 settlement and consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which mandates that the trade group not discriminate against brokers using VOWs (virtual office websites), expires in November, leaving some to question whether the way online brokerages such ...

Only 8 percent of U.S. home sellers in 2017 didn't use a broker, according to a survey of 7,866 home buyers released by the National Association of Realtors in October. Homes that were listed last year with a real-estate agent had a median sales price of $250,000, while those sold by owners had a median ...