Stopping the Oil Gusher, Starting the Jobs Gusher
By Robert Freedman, senior editor, REALTOR® Magazine Home sales are doing pretty well right now, with sales at an annual pace of almost 5.7 million units, but the question on everyone’s minds is, what...
View ArticleNAR Leadership: Legislative Efforts Loom for REALTORS®
By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine In the wake of recent legislative successes, including the extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit and the restoration of the rural...
View ArticleWhy We Do What We Do
By Kelly Killian, Manager of Editorial Development, REALTOR.org NAR received the following e-mail last week from a Washington-state REALTOR®, and it served as a thoughtful and important reminder of why...
View Article1,300 Sales a Day to Stall if Flood Insurance Stops
By Robert Freedman, senior editor, REALTOR® Magazine Flood insurance is commonly thought of as a coastal issue but flood plains are located throughout the country and in fact, in some Midwestern...
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Flood Insurance: Don’t Give Lenders One More Reason to Say ‘No’
NAR President Moe Veissi told a panel of U.S. senators yesterday that the last thing the housing market needs right now is another reason for lenders to decline your client’s mortgage loan application....
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Why Flood Reauthorization is Such a Big Win
REALTORS® claimed a big victory last week when President Obama signed into law the 5-year reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. NAR spent years advocating on behalf of this...
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Why Flood Insurance Subsidies are Phasing Out
For years the availability of federally backed flood insurance was an on-off affair. The program was $18 billion in debt to the U.S. Treasury, largely because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005,...
View ArticleFlood Subsidies Phasing Out Unless Congress Acts, FEMA Chief Says
UPDATE: Read NAR’s Oct. 10 letter to Craig Fugate outlining steps his agency could take to mitigate the sting of rising flood insurance premiums. Any chance of the federal government delaying the...
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Veissi: Pause Needed on Flood Ins. Changes
NAR and many lawmakers in Congress are pushing for a time-out in the federal government’s efforts to eliminate flood insurance subsidies over time and phase in premium rates that reflect properties’...
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