State & Local Advocacy

REALTORS® and REALTOR® Associations working to protect and promote homeownership and property investment.

The REALTOR® Party is a powerful alliance of REALTORS® and REALTOR® Associations working to protect and promote homeownership and property investment. The REALTOR® Party speaks with one voice to advance candidates that build strong communities and promote a vibrant business environment.

The REALTOR® Party is effective at all levels of government because of its grassroots strength. That strength is exhibited in advocacy as well as community involvement. The REALTOR® Party works hand in hand with the REALTORS Political Action Committee (RPAC).

NAR provides a wide variety of resources to foster and harness the grassroots strength of the REALTOR® Party.

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Featured Resources

Land Use Initiative

NAR’s Land Use Initiative is a program designed to assist state and local REALTOR® associations in their public policy advocacy of land use issues.

Community Outreach Resources

Programs, grants, toolkits, guides, and publications to help REALTORS® be strong advocates for their customers and find solutions to local challenges.

On Common Ground

Check out a range of views on smart growth issues, from community design and neighborhood development to reinventing how communities work.

Latest Updates

America’s home builders are getting back to work. Through the first eight months of 2013, residential construction starts were up 19 percent.

Does your community have vacant lots, plazas, parks, blocks, waterfronts or other public spaces in need of sprucing up or revitalization? Placemaking is a tool that can help transform these unused or underutilized spaces into vibrant community places which, in turn, may help to increase the value of surrounding properties. NAR offers a Placemaking Guide, resources, a series of webinars and...