Realtors Property Resource® unleashed version 1.13 with some powerful new enhancements, including a new mapping interface and completely redesigned reports engine.

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We are pleased to announce the addition of Veronica McManus and Allen Wright to the RPR team. Each will be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships in their respective markets, working closely with local and state Association and MLS staff to offer communication, training and support systems designed to develop and deliver programs to help your members make the most of the RPR system.

Veronica McManus

As Market Manager for the New England markets, Veronica McManus will cover Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. Veronica has impressive list of accomplishments which make her an asset to the RPR team. Veronica comes to us from the REALTOR® community where she has been an agent, continuing ed instructor and extremely active with her local Association and is the President-elect for the Massachusetts State Chapter of Women’s Council of REALTORS®.

Allen Wright

Allen Wright joins RPR as the Market Manager for New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Allen has a tremendous list of accomplishments to his credit, including obtaining his MBA in the top ranked MAYS School of Business. Also, Allen launched the nationally recognized business planning tool CreateAPlan—enabling commissioned professionals to design a business plan focusing on the costs and activities associated with meeting a specific income goal. This tool was accepted by CRS and awarded the Quality Tested Certificate. CreateAPlan is used by thousands of real estate professionals, in 2005 was acquired by RealtyU, Inc.

For more on both Veronica and Allen visit the RPR Industry Relations team page.

In anticipation of RPR’s upcoming Commercial Beta Launch in May, RPR has recently hired Emily Line as Director of Commercial Services.  In this position Emily’s first responsibility will be to assist in the management and launch of RPR’s Commercial Application to the upcoming Beta Test markets, and mange that process throughout the summer.  Emily will be responsible for creating outreach strategies to Commercial MLSs, Commercial Information Exchanges (CIEs) and REALTOR® Associations in order to deliver the  RPR’s Commercial value proposition.  She will also work closely with RPR Product Team to create specifications for new functionality based upon feedback from users and MLS/CIE Staff.

 ”I’m thrilled to join the RPR team and continue working with commercial members and REALTOR® associations,” Emily said.  ”It’s exciting to take what I’ve learned working with commercial practitioners around the country for the last 5 years and be in the position to connect them with the ultimate REALTOR® benefit they have been asking for — better commercial data through the RPR Commercial initiative!”

Before coming to RPR, Emily managed Development and Outreach for NAR’s Commercial Real Estate Division. Emily’s duties focused on planning for associations that were looking to develop new programs & services or enhance current offerings for commercial members; presentations to REALTOR® members on commercial real estate advocacy efforts, research, education, communications, and technology available through membership; and coaching for Associations wanting to earn NAR’s Commercial Services Accreditation.

The 2012 NAR Association Executives Institute (AEI) is being held in Louisville Kentucky on March 16-20. If you’re not already familiar with AEI,  the purpose is to raise Association Executive awareness of real estate industry issues and provides professional development opportunities so that AEs across the country can better serve the REALTOR® organization and its members.  It also marks the 100th anniversary of the AEI Institute.

We will have an RPR exhibit table where we’ll be giving demos of the application and providing valuable updates on RPR features and benefits.  The RPR team attending this year’s conference will include CEO Dale Ross, Senior Vice President-Mona Steen and representing the RPR Industry Relations team will be  Ohan Antebian, Ron France, Ernie Bottom, Kristen Carr, Andrea Goodhart, Kristen Hernandez and Lee Neiman. For more on the IR team, check out the IR team page here.

Also on Saturday, March 17^th, RPR West Region Vice President-Ohan Antebian will be presenting an RPR session to the State Association Executives at 1pm. Ohan’s presentation will be in the Nunn room on the second floor of the Galt Hotel.

If you somehow missed the registration online, you can still register on-site. If you’re not able to attend this year, but would still like to follow along check out the AIEhashtag #AEI2012.

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“Karen is an outstanding, intelligent and charismatic individual who is determined to succeed at anything she attempts. During her 11-year tenure at Real Estate Business Resources, she led a “start-up” company into a profitable and relevant business, serving the needs of real estate brokers and agents throughout Kansas and North America. We are very proud of all her accomplishments and heartily congratulate Karen on her new position with RPR. Her leadership talent will be missed at Real Estate Business Resources (REBR), however, we are proud to see that Karen will continue to serve all REALTORS® on an even larger platform at RPR,” said Sandy Green, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Real Estate Business Resources, Inc.

Karen’s new role with RPR will be focused building partnerships with local and state Associations and MLSs to expand training and communication programs designed to support RPR to NAR’s one million members across the country.

Prior to her employment with REBR, Karen served as Director of Governmental Relations for 17 years for KAR where she worked as the lobbyist for the association on legislative and regulatory matters.

RPR CEO Dale Ross, stated, “RPR is excited to add Karen’s extensive knowledge and background with Association training and leadership to its growing member support programs. RPR is committed to provide an increasing level of opportunity to its users in order to improve their efficiency and productivity with their clients and customers.”

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Anne Marie Matteo is CEO of Suburban West REALTORS® Association, which covers the southern and western suburbs of Philadelphia. She said, “We know that easy access to rich market information and innovative tools are a key part of making our members successful in their business. RPR is a tool that will do just that, while also further adding to the value of REALTOR® membership.”

 In addition to the Suburban West REALTORS® Association, the other Associations that launched RPR today were:

• Bucks County Association of REALTORS®
• Burlington Camden County Association of REALTORS®
• Gloucester/Salem County Board of REALTORS®
• Greater Philadelphia Association of REALTORS®
• Kent County Association of REALTORS®
• Mercer County Board of REALTORS®
• Montgomery County Association of REALTORS®
• New Castle County Board of REALTORS®
• Reading-Berks Association of REALTORS®

TREND, the MLS for the Philadelphia region, facilitated the transfer listings to help create a robust catalog of properties.

“RPR is extremely proud to partner with the Philadelphia area REALTOR® Associations and TREND to bring its member benefit to the 28,000 professionals in the area,” said RPR CEO Dale Ross. “RPR’s core mission is to ensure that the REALTOR® remains central to the real estate transaction by providing one-stop, high value search, analytics and reporting functions to brokers and agents to help them save time and money, be more productive, and create opportunities to service their clients and customers with the latest technology.”

RPR is a technology initiative developed by the National Association of REALTORS® for the exclusive use of its 1.1 million REALTOR® members.  For the MLS Partners map, visit here.