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Highlights from NAR Legislative Meetings


Congratulations to Texan Leslie Rouda Smith! Rouda Smith has been ratified to serve as the 2022 NAR president. She is a broker-associate at Dave Perry-Miller & Associates, a NAR regional vice president in 2017, and chairman of Texas REALTORS® in 2016. Learn more about the NAR leadership team.


Two more Texans were appointed to prominent NAR roles as well. Kaki Lybbert, 2018 Texas REALTORS® Chairman, will serve as vice president of advocacy and Chris Kelly, President and CEO of the Ebby Halliday Companies, will be the 2022 broker relations liaison. Both positions serve as part of the NAR extended Leadership Team.


At the Board of Directors meeting, NAR approved a budget that forecasts 1.43 million members for 2022 (down from a revised projection of 1.48 million in 2021), and voted to keep national dues at the current level of $150 per member.


One of the most-watched actions by the board related to proposed changes to MLS policy. Directors adopted a new MLS policy requiring that the property address for all residential listings filed with the MLS be disclosed and available to MLS participants and subscribers at the time the listing is submitted to the MLS. The change doesn’t preclude sellers who need privacy from keeping their address (or entire listing) off of publicly accessible displays of their property.


The board also approved a series of Core Standards recommendations that impact the appeal hearing process:

  • Enforcing a firm Dec. 31 deadline by when local and commercial associations must complete their Core Standards certification forms.

  • Formalizing the process by which state associations communicate issues of a local association’s non-compliance to NAR

  • Allowing state associations to meet with and provide written documentation to the hearing panel before any appeal

  • Prohibiting Core Standards hearing panels from granting extensions to non-compliant associations.

  • Requiring a warning letter by Feb. 1 to chief staff and officers of non-compliant associations

  • Allowing hearing panels to set a one-year probationary period on non-compliant associations and to impose sanctions with options that are less severe than charter revocation for first-time offenders.

  • Authorizing an NAR-developed training programs to educate local, commercial, and state association volunteer leaders on the Core Standards


Take a look at REALTOR® Magazine's coverage of the meeting for more information on what happened.




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