Midyear Conference in Washington D.C.

Last week, thousands of your fellow REALTORS® traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with industry leaders and members of Congress on key issues facing our industry and our businesses.  I encourage you all to check out the following highlights from the meetings:

Real Estate Summit – NAR hosted a three-day summit focused on Stabilizing the U.S. Mortgage Finance Delivery System.  Watch videos of featured speakers, including FHA Commissioner Dave Stevens; political experts Ed Gillespie and Terry McAuliffe, financial expert Ron Insana, and economist Diane C. Swonk.

http://www.realtor.org/meetings_and_expo/real_estate_summit
 
REALTORS Property Resource(TM) – NAR CEO Dale Stinton provided an update on the latest Second Century Initiative, which will give you access to a wealth of information on properties across the United States.

http://www.realtor.org/about_nar/realtors_property_resource

2010 Member Profile – NAR also released a new Member Profile, which shows how the face of real estate is changing.  As part of the Right Tools, Right Now initiative, you can download it for free at:

http://www.realtor.org/prodser.nsf/products/E186-12-10?OpenDocument

Call for Action – On Sunday, we called on all REALTORS® to fight new tax burdens on real estate.  I urge you all to go to the REALTOR® Action Center today, send a letter to your member of Congress, and join the REALTOR® Party.

http://www.realtoractioncenter.com

To see what your fellow REALTORS® had to say about the meetings, visit the Midyear Live blog:  http://live.blogs.realtor.org/