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WRA Legislative Reports

With your help and support, the WRA has secured legislative victories that saved REALTORS® and property owners millions of dollars over the years! Invest in RPAC. It’s a wise investment in your business.


2023 WRA Legislative Report

2020 Legislative Report Thumbnail Topics include:
  • By-right approval and development certainty
  • Residential development infrastructure loan program
  • Main street residential housing rehabilitation loan program
  • Vacant commercial-to-housing conversion loan program
  • Rehabilitation and repair of older housing stock
  • Held the line on property taxes
  • Eliminated personal property tax
  • DSPS education efficiencies

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2022 WRA Legislative Report

2020 Legislative Report Thumbnail Topics include:
  • Exempting access easements from the 40-year statute of limitations
  • Prohibiting local governments from retaining the proceeds from the tax foreclosure sales of non-homestead properties
  • Creating a statutory framework for homeowners associations
  • Broadband expansion
  • Significant income tax cuts and property tax cuts
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2021 WRA Legislative Report

2020 Legislative Report Thumbnail Topics include:
  • Right to place a pier on flowages restored
  • Property tax cut
  • Broadband expansion
  • Home inspection reports and “defects”
  • DSPS technology upgrades to simplify online credentialing
  • Significant income tax cuts
  • COVID-19 civil liability exemption
  • Bad proposals rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature

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2020 WRA Legislative Report

2020 Legislative Report Thumbnail Topics include:
  • REALTORS® and real estate are essential
  • Remote online notarization (RON)
  • Condominium association dispute resolution
  • More money for K-12 schools and property tax relief
  • Broadband expansion
  • Income tax cuts
  • Seller audio/video surveillance at showings
  • Prohibit chasing sales

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2019 WRA Legislative Report

  2019 legislative Report Icon Topics include:
  • More money for K-12 schools and property tax relief
  • Broadband expansion
  • Income tax cuts
  • First-time homebuyer savings accounts
  • Seller audio/video surveillance at showings
  • Workforce housing shortage

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2018 WRA Legislative Report

  2018 legislative Report Thumbnail Topics include:
  • Homeownership/property ownership affordability
  • Private property rights
  • Hurdles to successful real estate transactions
  • Infrastructure investment
  • Regulatory barriers to residential and commercial development
  • Ownership of rental property

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2017 WRA Legislative Report

  Legislative Report 2017 Topics include: 
  • More money for schools and property tax relief
  • Right to rent
  • Rental weatherization program
  • Historic preservation tax credits
  • Real estate practice
  • Homeowners bill of rights
  • Landlord-tenant law
  • Appraisal management companies
  • Federal tax reform

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2016 WRA Legislative Report

 Ektron-LegReport16.jpg Topics include: 
  • Hurdles to successful real estate transactions
  • Homeownership/property ownership affordability
  • REALTORS® at the center of the real estate transaction
  • Downtown revitalization
  • Ownership of rental property
  • Private property rights
  • Regulatory barriers to residential and commercial development

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2015 WRA Legislative Report

 Ektron-LegReport15.jpg Topics include:
  • Chapter 452 modernization
  • Codifying Dinger
  • Historic rehabilitation tax credits
  • Landlord-tenant law
  • Mortgage interest deduction
  • Property tax freeze/levy limits
  • Shoreland zoning
  • Tax incremental finance
  • Time of sale requirements
  • Two-year statute of limitations

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2014 WRA Legislative Report

Ektron-LegReport14.jpg Topics include: 
  • $506 million property tax cut
  • Broker experience legislation
  • Landlord-tenant law
  • Local fee restriction
  • Municipal utility bills
  • Out-of-state licensees
  • State preemption of local regulations relating to brokers
  • Tax reform proposal
  • Vested rights

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2013 WRA Legislative Report

 Ektron-LegReport13.jpg Topics include: 
  • Appraisal management companies
  • Broker experience legislation
  • Municipal utility bills
  • Landlord-tenant law
  • Vested rights
  • Mortgage interest deduction
  • Attorneys at all closings
  • REALTOR® opinions of value
  • Joint and several liability
  • Real estate transfer tax
  • Fraudulent misrepresentation
  • Extending levy limits to cover certain fees
  • State preemption of the regulation of real estate brokers and brokerage services

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    2012 WRA Legislative Report

    Ektron-LegReport12.jpg Topics include: 
    • Restructure real estate board
    • Farmland conversion fee
    • Property tax freeze
    • Variances expiration date
    • Health savings accounts
    • Landlord-tenant law
    • Wetland regulation reform
    • Piers/Chap. 30 regulatory reform

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