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Priority Issues

Read about NVAR's work on several legislative and regulatory policy goals, including current priority issues, on-going issues, standing Public Policy Positions and recent Realtor® Advocacy Wins. Make your voice heard by submitting feedback for the annual NVAR Legislative Program, submitted every spring.

Realtor® Advocacy
Wins

NAR Federal
Issues

2023-2024 NVAR Legislative Agenda

Download the 2023-2024 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

Housing Supply, Attainability & Affordability
Common Interest Communities
Property Management and Residential Landlord and Tenant Issues
Realtor® Professionalism, Education and Practice
Fair Housing
Transportation, Infrastructure, and Emergin Technologies
Standing Positions

On-Going Issues

Sign Ordinances
New Virginia Laws
Property Tax Rates

NVAR Legislative Program

Every spring, NVAR compiles legislative and regulatory policy goals for the coming year into a document called the NVAR Legislative Program.

The Legislative Program is developed over several months based on feedback given by NVAR members. The process begins in March, when NVAR committees and forums are asked to submit issues to the NVAR Public Policy Committee for consideration. Individual Realtors® may also submit issues to the committee. A task force researches these issues and recommends pertinent ones for inclusion in the Legislative Program.

Once a draft program has been developed, the Public Policy Committee reviews it and sends a final draft to NVAR’s Board of Directors for consideration. Following approval by the Board, NVAR forwards the program to the Virginia Association of Realtors® for inclusion in the statewide list of legislative priorities.

An important component of the issues we look at is your voice. If you have suggestions for items we should be looking into please email us at govaffairs@nvar.com OR fill out this quick form.

Town Hall Notes Blog

Another Successful NV/RPAC Silent Auction!

Oct 22, 2019, 15:40 PM by User Not Found

A Fast Car, Axe Throwing, Great Getaways, and Experiences Galore!

By Paula Martino

A Fast Car, Axe Throwing, Great Getaways, and Experiences Galore!

The focus of this year’s silent auction was to offer more fun and exciting experiences to our members and it sure paid off. Bidding was vigorous with almost 300 bids cast for a final auction total of $18,221 raised for NV/RPAC to support the issues and candidates that preserve and protect your industry.

Thanks to the hard work of Event Chair Mary Ann Burstein, the entire NV/RPAC Campaign Committee and the generosity of our item donors, we were able to take the auction offerings to the next level. There were getaways available to the Caymans, a luxury Florida resort, Ambergris Caye, Belize and to a beautiful Bed & Breakfast right here in Northern Virginia. For lovers of fast cars, we had a 2019 Aston Martin DB11 to auction off for a weekend, James Bond style, courtesy of Aston Martin Washington DC. Those looking for fun, recreational experiences locally were able to bid on packages from Bad Axe Throwing, Ultimate Archery Dodgeball and Dave & Buster’s. Baseball fans had the opportunity to be the highest bidder for 2 tickets to see the Washington Nationals WIN the National League Division Championship in Game #4 against the St. Louis Cardinals. We also had plenty of great baskets of cheer from local wineries and distilleries and many of 2019’s hottest electronic gadgets and gifts to choose from.

Our simple-to-use web-based auction platform was a hit again this year. This platform gives bidders the convenience of bidding and monitoring items remotely from their phones or computers in addition to being present at the auction site during the convention. We look forward to using it again next year for another fun and successful fundraising experience.

A very special thank-you to all the REALTORS®, companies, affiliated service providers, local businesses and individuals for donating the wonderful auction items:

Aston Martin Washington DC

Mary Bayat

Boomerang Tours, Inc.

BPG Inspections

Mary Bowen, Long & Foster Real Estate

Mary Ann Burstein, Long & Foster Real Estate

Genevieve Concannon, Advon Real Estate

Crescendo Studios

Dave & Buster’s Fairfax

Michelle Doherty, RE/MAX Allegiance

ECI Development

Greenhill Vineyards

Hidden View Bed & Breakfast

Sanjay Joshi, Ikon Realty

Kathy Kratovil, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

L’Auberge Provencal

Middleburg Life Magazine

Nicholas Lagos, 2019 NVAR President-Elect

Gary Lange, Weichert, REALTORS®

Long & Foster Real Estate

Paula Martino

Matchbox Restaurants

Roger Nakazawa

Peter Nguyen, The Reef Team

NVAR

Prosperity Home Mortgage

Christine Richardson, 2019 NVAR President

Andrea Riggs

John Slye, Ameris Bank Mortgage Services

Derrick Swaak, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

Virginia Treanor, National Museum for Women in the Arts

Scott Tucker, Guaranteed Rate Affinity

Ultimate Archery Dodgeball

Josh Veverka

Kevin Wheeler, 123JUNK

Vijay Yadlapati

Ann Yanagihara, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

NORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®

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