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Are you or your clients looking to foray into foreign investments? 🌎 Get started with our recently-updated Foreign Investors reference page!

Foreign Investors Despite potential risks such as a depressed housing market, dealing with foreign laws, fluctuating exchange rates, etc., cross-border investment is expected to accelerate as domestic investors seek high returns abroad and foreign investors take advantage of a weakened dollar.

New Year's resolutions to read more? It's not too late to start! Check out our featured eBook & audiobook collections for February. 📚

People Management https://realtor.overdrive.com/collection/1465106

On a personal note: Interior Decoration https://realtor.overdrive.com/collection/1645382

Whether or not you attended earlier this month, you can dive deeper with our 2024 NXT Speaker eBook and Audiobook Collection! Featuring titles from speakers Nate Silver, David Ortiz, Marcus Buckingham and more.

National Association of REALTORS® Browse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the National Association of REALTORS® digital collection.

✨ 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄? ✨

“Under all is the land” is a phrase familiar to REALTORS® today as the opening words of the Code of Ethics’ preamble, setting forth the social responsibilities of the association and its members.

What you may not know, is that the original 1913 Code of Ethics included no preamble. The famous introduction was written by Arthur H. Barnhisel, a real estate broker and Presbyterian minister from Tacoma, WA, and added to the Code under the revisions adopted by the National Association 100 years ago, in June 1924.