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
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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
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2022 report
- Access easement 40-year exemptions
- Foreclosure equity theft
- HOA statutory framework
- Broadband expansion
- Cuts for income and property taxes
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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
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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
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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
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2018 report
- Property ownership affordability
- Private property rights
- Hurdles to successful real estate transactions
- Infrastructure investment
- Regulatory barriers to development
- Ownership of rental property
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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