WRA Legislative Reports

With your support, the WRA has secured legislative victories that saved REALTORS^® and property owners millions of dollars over the years, reflecting our steadfast commitment to the real estate profession and the Wisconsin real estate market.

2024 report

• Discriminatory covenants and deed restrictions
• MLS sales tax exemption
• REALTOR^® risk
• Consumer transparency
• Practice standards
• Growth in Great Lakes communities
• Foreclosure equity theft
  

2023 report

• By-right approval and development certainty
• Infrastructure loan program
• Restore main street loan program
• Vacancy-to-vitality loan program
• Home repair and rehab program
• Property taxes
• Personal property tax
• DSPS education efficiencies

2022 report

• Access easement 40-year exemptions
• Foreclosure equity theft
• HOA statutory framework
• Broadband expansion
• Cuts for income and property taxes

2021 report

• Pier rights on flowages
• Property tax cuts
• Broadband expansion
• Home inspection reports and “defects”
• DSPS technology upgrades 
• Income tax cuts
• COVID-19 civil liability exemption
  

2020 report

• REALTORS^® and real estate are essential
• Remote online notarization
• Condominium association dispute resolution
• K-12 schools and property tax relief
• Broadband expansion
• Income tax cuts
• Seller audio and video surveillance at showings
• Chasing sales

2019 report

• K-12 schools and property tax relief
• Broadband expansion
• Income tax cuts
• First-time homebuyer savings accounts
• Seller audio and video surveillance at showings
• Workforce housing shortage

2018 report

• Property ownership affordability
• Private property rights
• Hurdles to successful real estate transactions
• Infrastructure investment
• Regulatory barriers to development
• Ownership of rental property

2017 report

• School funding 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

2016 report

• Hurdles to successful real estate transactions
• Property ownership affordability
• REALTORS^® at the center of the transaction
• Downtown revitalization
• Ownership of rental property
• Private property rights
• Regulatory barriers development

2015 report

• 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

2014 report

• $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

2013 report

• 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
• Regulation of brokerage services

2012 report

• Restructure real estate board
• Farmland conversion fee
• Property tax freeze
• Variances expiration date
• Health savings accounts
• Landlord-tenant law
• Wetland regulation reform
• Piers and Chap. 30 regulatory reform