[VINCE MALTA] Hello everyone, I’m Vince Malta, 2020 President of the National Association of Realtors. I’m here with one of NAR’s newest team members, Bryan Greene, our director of fair housing policy. Bryan came to us from HUD, where he served as the General Deputy...

For more than 50 years, the Fair Housing Act has declared a national policy prohibiting discrimination in housing. And yet, there is still much progress to be made. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of African-American homeowners fell to...

There are two types of Ikea customers: those who follow instructions and those who don’t. I was in the latter category. After spending an inordinate amount of time studying the instructions, assembling, disassembling, and reassembling parts to build my desk, I decided...

Q. We received an application from someone with a criminal history. Can we deny membership based on that alone?The bases upon which an applicant for REALTOR® membership may be denied are established in your association’s bylaws and clarified in NAR’s membership...

The agency cases from this quarter address several different agency issues. The first case, an interesting New York decision, the court held that a real estate representative breached her fiduciary duty by submitting her own offer for purchase of a property for which...

The Property Condition Disclosure cases consider residential property condition disclosure reports and a disclosure notices. In the first case, the court concluded that the sellers did not misrepresent the condition of the house of the Residential Property Condition...

This quarter, the RESPA cases retrieved highlighted the importance of a borrower being able to show actual damages caused by alleged violations.  In one case, the court found that the borrower had suffered compensable damages under RESPA as the direct result of the...