If you attended the NAR MidYear meetings in Washington, DC, you may have heard about the launch of NAR’s newest certification, “BPOs: The Agent’s Role in the Valuation Process.” RPR plays a unique role in this certification, providing BPO orders to members who complete the class and application process. Driven by the default market, BPOs play a more important role than ever, with some 10 million orders expected this year, according to NAR. Through RPR’s [Read more...]
An important part of RPR’s mission is to supply valuation products under the REALTOR® brand to the Federal housing agencies, who require – now more than ever – high-quality, real-time information to help them better understand how to remove systemic risk and re-establish the fundamentals of our still-recovering housing market. This mission works hand-in-hand with some of the remarkable policy work that is done in Washington, DC by NAR. In conjunction with these [Read more...]
If you have been tracking the progress of RPR, you are aware that we have a twofold mission: to provide a comprehensive database of property information to REALTORS®, and to produce authoritative valuation analytics under the REALTOR® brand. These two goals are obviously interconnected. I write today to give you a progress report on the second objective. Our “flagship” product, the Realtors Valuation Model™ (RVM), launched in October, 2010, at the Mortgage [Read more...]
If you attended NAR’s Midyear meetings in Washington, D.C. last week, you probably heard about RPR’s progress on a number of fronts: we now have more than a thousand Realtors beta testing in twelve MLS markets, including a mobile application in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we have signed licenses with almost four dozen MLSs, comprising more than 210,000 Realtors, or more than 18% of NAR’s Realtor membership. We’ve come quite a way since the company was [Read more...]
It's been a few weeks since we first released the RPR Content License Agreement, and if you follow such things, you will have noted that it attracted a good deal of public attention, and much more private discussion. In the public arena, there were thoughtful checklists of issues to consider with regard to our agreement (and beyond) posted by Mike Audet of WAV Group, and by John Rees. And over at MLS Tesseract, Brian Larson made a series of posts expressing [Read more...]
Version 1.11 of Realtors Property Resource® went live last night and includes a number of new features, in particular a redesigned and
Hope you all had a happy and healthy holiday season. We are just a few weeks into the New Year and RPR programs are already making progress. Here
At RPR we have some exciting news to share; Karen France has joined our team as Vice President of Programs and Events. Karen comes to RPR after