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Register April 29th and 30th only for a FREE online CE course from RI REALTORS. You will have 45 days to take the class. Find more information here.

April is Fair Housing Month and to honor this landmark legislation, RI REALTORS® is offering a complimentary Fair Housing course through the Keynote Professional Series worth 4 CORE continuing education credits! Fair Housing and Beyond covers the importance of treating every person equally regardless of their background. Review protected classes and

Real estate offers new opportunities and challenges every day. The Rhode Island Association of REALTORS® is seeking leaders to help us embrace and navigate those changes. What: The RIAR Nominating Committee, which is Chaired by RIAR Immediate Past President Dean deTonnancourt, invites you to apply for one or more of the following offices:

WASHINGTON (April 23, 2020) – National Association of Realtors® President Vince Malta issued the following statement after the U.S. House voted Thursday evening to provide additional funding to small-business relief programs created by the CARES Act. NAR had made reviving the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan

What are Opportunity Zones? An Opportunity Zone is an economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment. Localities qualify as Opportunity Zones if they have been nominated for that designation by the state and that nomination has been certified by the Secretary of the U.S.

If you weren’t able to take in the RI Realtors® YPN webinar on April 16th, you missed some important news about how COVID-19 is impacting closings. Attorneys Melissa D’Ellena, Chris Denelle and Geoff Sciotti had some interesting updates and advice to share. Here are some of their helpful tips: • Early in the process, ask your sellers to

With your ability to show your listings now limited by social distancing, we've added some important features to help you showcase your home virtually! First, we’ve added the ability for you to enter “Virtual Open Houses” into Matrix. A virtual open house is essentially a live streamed viewing of your listing. It is not the same as a

Is “your” home inspector licensed? Starting on July 1, 2020, anyone who conducts a home inspection for a home or other residential property located in Rhode Island must be licensed as a home inspector or associate home inspector. This includes home inspectors who are already licensed in other states like Massachusetts or Connecticut. If you

Effective Saturday, April 18, all employees (including independent contractors) of customer-facing businesses MUST wear a facemask to go into the office or workplace unless an employee can easily, continuously, and measurably maintain at least six (6) feet of distance from others for the duration of his or her work. What does this mean for REALTORS?