Legislative Reports
With your support, the WRA has helped REALTORS® and property owners save millions of dollars.
WRA Legislative Reports
With your support, the WRA has achieved legislative victories that have saved REALTORS® and property owners millions, demonstrating our ongoing commitment to the real estate profession and Wisconsin’s market.
2026 report
Residential TIDs
WHEDA loan modifications
Truth in planning
Neighborhood improvement districts
Plat review
2025 report
- Housing supply solutions
- Preventing landlord bankruptcy
- Reducing transaction costs
- Real estate practice changes
- 2025-27 state budget
- Prohibition on recording non-improvement contracts
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