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As a REALTOR®, $120 of your dues pays for your membership in the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. In return, you get a whole host of special discounts, free education, news, research, and tools you need to be successful. With all these resources, your national membership quickly pays for itself—if you take advantage of them.

 

How much do you save by being a member of NAR? Click each item you’ve used or plan to use, and see how your savings add up.

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A REALTOR® who takes advantage of just one benefit in each of the categories below would save at least $900 a year.

Courses/Training/Webinars

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Online Code of Ethics training $30 Free $30How?Mandatory ethics training enhances members' professionalism and competency in their daily dealings with clients, consumers, and the public. NAR offers free online Code of Ethics training; members could pay $30 or more for training from a third party.
Online NAR designation and certification courses $115- $295 $103- $265 $20How?NAR is offering members 10% off designation and certification courses for specializing in short sales and foreclosures (SFR), 50+ market (SRES®), green (GREEN), and buyer representation (ABR®). The list prices for these courses range from $115 to $295. Calculation is average savings.
Informational webinars $20 Free $20How?REALTOR® Magazine and other NAR departments offer free webinars-on buyer and seller trends, helpful tech tools for real estate professional, and much more-designed to help give members a business edge. Similar webinars can cost roughly $20 from other sources.
Professional development webinars from REALTOR® University $20 $15 $5How?REALTOR® University offers weekly webinars on topics such as branding, lead generation, and social media. NAR Members pay $14.95 - a discount of $5 per webinar.
     
 

Listings

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Residential listings on REALTOR.com® $49 Free $49How?If your MLS is a REALTOR.com® data content provider, you receive free basic listings on REALTOR.com®, real estate's most-viewed Web site. REALTOR.com® attracts nearly 13 million visits from potential buyers and each listing is viewed on average 1,500 times per month. The estimated savings includes the operating, marketing, and SEO/SEM costs to aggregate, display, and host a web page for each listing.
International listings, translation services, and area/currency conversion (launching November 2011)
 $200 Free $200How?Estimated savings is based on the cost a real estate professional would pay for similar services from a third-party vendor.
     

News and Publications

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REALTOR® Magazine $56 Free $56How?NAR members receive REALTOR® Magazine automatically as a member benefit. Cost to subscribe for non-members is $56.
Free ready-to-share articles from REALTOR® Content Resource $500 Free $500How?Most REALTORS® need content for their newsletters, blogs websites, and social media. NAR’s REALTOR® Content Resource tool makes content from HouseLogic about all aspects of homeownership, buying, and selling available to members at no charge, ready to use in consumer communications with the member’s brand. If REALTORS® purchased a similar tool, it would cost $500 a year.
Books and brochures in the REALTOR.org Store (average price) $43 $10 $33How?The REALTOR.org Store offers more than 300 bestselling books, business guides, and more on real estate topics at special member pricing-and even offers several free publications. Discounts vary; estimate is for average savings.
E-books and e-products in the REALTOR.org store (average price) $25 $16 $9How?Among the REALTOR.org Store's e-product offerings are many of our popular brochures on buying and selling and some free e-publications available for download. Discounts vary; estimate is average savings.
     

Conferences and Networking

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REALTORS® Conference & Expo $760 $380 $380How?NAR's annual national conference offers 100+ hours of learning sessions from top speakers and the opportunity to network with members from around the globe. The conference features an accompanying expo featuring 400 valuable venders. Each full-conference attendee receives a complete set of session recordings ($380 value).
Commercial Caffeinated networking breakfast $55 $45 $10How?This networking breakfast takes place during the REALTORS® Conference & Expo in November and features a keynote speaker along with the unique opportunity to meet and share best practices with commercial colleagues from across the country. Ticket cost is $45 for NAR members and $55 for nonmembers.
RealShare Conferences for commercial practitioners $249 $199 $50How?These daylong conferences held throughout the year address key commercial-market segments such as student housing and medial offices or issues that have industry wide implications, such as finance and investment. NAR members can use the promo code and receive $50 off the cost of registration.
Young Professionals Network $100 Free $100How?Through networking events, a lively blog, and an engaged YPN Advisory Subcommittee, the Young Professionals Network gives its members-REALTORS® mostly under the age of 40 (though there are no formal age restrictions)-unique tools to advance their careers. Other specialty networks charge about $100 for membership, while it's free for NAR members to join the YPN.
     

Select Products and Services

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Car rental discounts $229 $188 $41How?Members receive discounts on car rentals from REALTOR Benefits® Partners. Estimated savings is based on one typical member rental experience.
Computer discounts $1,925 $1,232 $693How?Members receive discounts on the purchase of computers and peripherals. Estimated savings is based on one typical member purchase through the REALTOR Benefits® Program.
Lead routing and ad measurement services $719 $479 $240How?REALTOR Benefits® Partner Ifbyphone offers an exclusive suite of voice communications services for NAR members. Estimated annual savings is difference between member price and retail price of comparable nonmember product.
REALTORS® Dental Insurance $456 $350 $106How?REALTORS® Dental Insurance, offered through the REALTOR Benefits® Program offers exclusive plans and rates for NAR members. Annual savings based on cost of comparable retail product and only represents premium savings (does not take into account PPO savings that may be realized or out-of-pocket costs that members may incur who have no insurance).
REALTORS® Core Health Insurance $2,531 $2,082 $449How?REALTORS® Core Health Insurance provides guaranteed-issue, affordable limited medical plans that are exclusively designed and priced specifically for NAR members through the REALTOR Benefits® Program. Annual savings is based on cost of comparable retail product and only represents premium savings (does not take into account PPO savings that may be realized or out-of-pocket costs that members may incur who have no insurance).
REALTORS® Federal Credit Union banking services $108 Free $108How?REALTORS® Federal Credit Union is an independent, member-owned financial cooperative with services designed to meet the unique financial and cash-flow needs of real estate professionals. Estimated annual savings on banking services is based on REALTORS® FCU's truly free checking compared with minimum requirements fees from select major banks.
     

Research Reports

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NAR Member Profile $150 $20 $130How?Members pay $20 for the downloadable NAR Member Profile, an annual report summarizing the business characteristics, activity, and demographic of NAR's residential members; list price is $150.
Technology reports $300 Free $300How?NAR's Center for REALTOR® Technology issues reports on various topics, such as smartphone usage among REALTORS® and tech trends among MLSs. Other industry researchers charge for such reports; NAR offers them for free.
Home Buyers and Sellers Profile $150 $20 $130How?Members pay $20 for downloadable in-depth analysis answering who today's home buyers and sellers are, how they work with real estate agents, and what role the Internet plays in the process; list price is $150.
Commercial research reports $400 Free $400How?NAR's quarterly Commercial Real Estate Outlook is NAR'S flagship commercial research report, with commercial market data on five key sectors-industrial, office, multifamily, retail, and hospitality real estate. Other commercial trade organizations charge as much as $400 for similar data, and banks and large firms produce their own, typically not for public sale.
Local Market Reports $200 Free $200How?NAR produces reports on 150 local markets each quarter. These reports provide insights into the fundamentals and direction of the nation's largest metropolitan housing markets. Each report evaluates a number of factors affecting home prices, including the local job market, foreclosure rates, housing inventory, and debt-to-income and mortgage-servicing-costs-to-income ratios. Similar reports from Moody’s or others sell for as much as $200 per report.
     

Consulting and Custom Research

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Library services (research services, access to online publications, etc.) $250 Free $250How?Savings is based on the cost of joining a specialty real estate library. NAR's InfoCentral provides digital book loan, audio-video loan, newspapers and magazines, field guides, and individual search requests.
Historical data requests $300 Free $300How?NAR will do a custom pull of data, depending on availability, from the full history NAR's existing-home sales, pending home sales, and housing affordability data at no cost to member. Estimated savings is what non-members pay NAR for such data on average.
     

Branding and Advertising

 Retail Price Member Price

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Lowe's Program for REALTORS® $377 Free $377How?The Lowe's program is free to NAR members, is entirely customized and branded, and unlike any other service available to nonmembers. These estimated savings are based on NAR's calculation of what each component of the program (postcard direct mail campaign, e-mail campaign, and gift-card purchases) could cost real estate professionals annually for comparable services purchased independently of the program.
Agent profile Web page on REALTOR.com® $69 Free $69How?Estimate considers cost of hosting a customizable Web page template for each office, value of REALTOR® branding, indexing for improved search-engine results, and links to REALTOR.com®, the No. 1 real estate site.
Find a REALTOR® Office profile page on REALTOR.com® $69 Free $69How?Estimate considers cost of hosting a customizable Web page template for each agent, value of REALTOR® branding, indexing for improved search-engine results, and links to REALTOR.com®, the No. 1 real estate site.
     

Advocacy Achievements

 Potential cost Cost After
NAR Action

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Flood Insurance $5,000 in lost commissions     $0         $5,000How?Based on FEMA estimates, as many as 10% of homes are located in flood plains. At the current rate of home sales (roughly 5 million per year) about 500,000 sales per year are in areas affected if flood insurance is unavailable. That means that a year-long reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program saved the typical REALTOR nearly $5,000 by allowing sales in flood prone areas to be completed.
Deductibility of health insurance premiums $225 - $450     $0         $337How?NAR supported provisions allowing self-employed individuals to fully deduct health insurance premiums when computing payroll taxes in 2010. According to a June 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation report, premiums for individual coverage averaged just over $3,600 and for family coverage more than $7,100 per year. Based on this average, deducting health insurance premiums for payroll tax purposes saves REALTORS® who purchase their own insurance between $225 and $450. Calculation is average savings.
Safe Act Licensing $1,460 - $3,360     $0         $2,410How?The cost of required education and licensing varies by state since some of the requirements differ, but based on the available information, the value of the licensing exemption won by NAR for its members ranges from $1,460 to $3,360 per person. Calculation is average savings.
Prevention of 10% down payment on FHA loans $3,225     $0         $3,225How?NAR analysis shows that if the FHA downpayment was increased to 10%, that would disqualify 382,000 potential buyers. That translates to a per-member avoided income loss of about $3,225.
Repeal of 1099 reporting requirement $740     $0         $740How?In a victory for REALTORS®, NAR fought for and won repeal of a 2010 provision that imposed burdensome 1099-reporting requirements on small landlords and the real estate practitioners who work with them. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, it costs the typical small business $74 an hour to comply with tax paperwork. Assuming it would take roughly 10 hours per year to comply with the 1099 rule, the rule's repeal saves REALTORS® approximately $740 a year.
     
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