CAR Unveils Ad Campaign to Promote Home Ownership
CAR is running radio and website ads in order to promote home ownership as a job creator, and boost to the economy, as well as build support for REALTORS®. To hear the radio ad
visit this link and
click here for the web ad.
Real Estate Conveyance Taxes Increased
Click here for changes to real estate conveyance tax on sales occurring on or after July 1, 2011 resulting from the approval by the Legislature and Governor Malloy of Senate Bill 1239 (the state budget).
Residential Property Disclosure Form Revised
The CT Department of Consumer Protection has issued a revision to the Residential Property Condition Disclosure Report form. The revision includes new language concerning flood hazard zones, historic districts, information on leased items such as propane tanks, volatile organic compounds found in well water and a new question concerning land use restrictions that may not be easily discovered without a full title search. The form will be available on the CT Department of Consumer Protection's website soon and is available on
CAR's website:
Listing agents should begin using the new form if they have not already provided a Residential Property Condition Disclosure Report form to a potential seller. If a seller provided a Residential Property Condition Disclosure Report as part of a listing package, but has not yet provided the form to potential purchaser, the seller should be asked to provide disclosure using the new revised form. For further information, please contact CAR's General Counsel Eugene Marconi at (860) 290-6601 or (800) 335-4862, or
marconie@ctrealtor.com.
2011 Leadership Conference
CAR's Tenth Annual CT REALTORS® Leadership Conference and CE Day were a big success! Thank you to everyone who attended and to all of our generous sponsors.
The Conference had a great line up of speakers which included 2011 NAR President Ron Phipps, NAR General Counsel Laurie Janik, Real Estate Advisor Jerry Matthews and our conference keynote speaker Terry Watson who all helped to make this a memorable event.
Visit
here to check out information from some of our speakers, see pictures from the event and get information on next year's event.
The following award winners were recognized at the conference:
Nikki Blass is the Harry W. Wenz Good Neighbor Award winner for 2011! Read more about Nikki
here.
Mary Ann Hebert, 2011 State REALTOR® of the Year: visit
here for more info.
Congratulations also to the 2011 Local Board REALTORS® of the Year - check out the list
here.
Congratulations to Maria Racelis-Heidtman, the 1st Prize winner in this year's "Get Active" member rewards program! The goal of this program was to raise member awareness about just some of the numerous CAR programs/events and encourage member participation in the State Association. Click
here to see all of the "Get Active" winners.
On Thursday May 13, at the NAR Midyear Meetings, the second annual GABBY's were awarded which celebrate the best use of the GetActive/Convio system to mobilize, communicate and educate REALTORS® in support of the REALTOR® Party. CAR took home two awards for both Best State Campaign and Best State Newsletter.
Click here to read more.
"Own it, Keep it!" grew out of a need to help prospective home buyers understand how to buy a home - where to start, who to talk to, and what to look for - and then, once they owned a home, how to keep it. This website is a collaborative effort of the Connecticut Association of Realtors®, Inc. ("CAR"), the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority ("CHFA"), and the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development ("HUD") and promotes wise and responsible decisions regarding owning and keeping a home by offering information and resources to prospective home buyers and home owners alike.
Please view the public services announcements featuring CAR's President Nicholle Dagata…
For many years now, CAR has presented a $1,000 Past Presidents Scholarship to a deserving student enrolled in the real estate program at UConn's Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies (CREUES). This year's Past Presidents Scholarship was presented by CAR President Nicholle Dagata to Mark Gaudette at the Annual Real Estate Awards program held on April 12th at the University of CT.
You can read more
here.
