Fund News and Alerts

On September 18^th the Polk Area Real Estate Council partnered with Lakeland Realtors® on an event entitled Drones and Real Estate: A Match Made in the Heavens at Aerospace Discovery at the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland.

On July 23^rd the Broward Attorneys’ Real Estate Council hosted a Law Symposium in partnership with the South Broward Board of Realtors® using the new Florida ARECS Standardized Law Symposium materials.  More than 50 real estate agents learned about topics ranging from Emotional Support Animals, Probate and a Comparison of the FRBAR Standard & AS-IS Contracts from REC Member attorneys Khila Khani, Nikeisha Pryor, Michael Quarequio, Nicole Villarroel and Tod Weston.

The Bay Area Real Estate Council hosted a presentation on 1031 Exchanges by Janet Schaum of Old Republic Exchange at their quarterly meeting on June 11^th at the Centre Club.

The Fund’s General Counsel Melissa Jay Murphy presented an Industry & Legislative Update to members of the Indian River Real Property Council and their Realtor® guests on April 16^th at The Moorings Yacht Club.  The discussion included key Florida legislation on remote online notarization, vacation rentals and lis pendens.  On the federal level, Murphy shared information on the industry’s efforts to change banking and money laundering laws to eliminate the current conflict between state and federal laws related to the cannabis business.

On November 5^th South Florida attorney Manuel Farach presented his extremely popular Recent Real Property Case Law Update and the Impact on Your Practice to members of the Martin County Real Estate Council.  If your REC has not yet hosted this program contact the REC Relations Manager.

The North Dade and the Beaches REC held their regular monthly lunch meeting on October 8th and welcomed Rebecca Wood, Senior Underwriting Counsel with The Fund, who presented Guide to Reading Surveys. Attendees earned 1.0 hour of Florida Bar CLE!

The Real Estate Council of Martin County kicked off August with The Value Adjustment Board Petition Process presented by Don Defenthaler, Director of Appraisal Services for the Martin County Property Appraiser’s Office on August 7th.

The REC community was very busy in May & June! See what all of the RECs have been up to:

The REC community was wildly busy in January and February! See what all of the RECs have been up to:

See what the North Dade and the Beaches Real Estate Council, the Bay Area Real Estate Council (BAREC) and the Capital Region Real Estate Council has been up to these past two months.