NAR President Kevin Sears sat down at Inman Connect Las Vegas with Clelia Warburg Peters to talk about the trade group’s past and future, including a return to advocacy and transparency.
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Each week on The Download, Inman’s Christy Murdock takes a deeper look at the top-read stories of the week to give you what you’ll need to meet Monday head-on. This week: NAR President Kevin Sears sat down at Inman Connect Las Vegas with Clelia Warburg Peters to talk about the trade group’s past and future, including a return to advocacy and transparency.
FOMO was the name of the game if you were anywhere but Las Vegas this week (unless you watched from home with your Virtual Access ticket). Not only did Inman Connect Las Vegas offer incredible opportunities to, well, connect (I mean, it’s right there in the name), but it also offered ground-zero coverage for onstage discussions of everything from commissions to operations to affordability and more.
Of course, one of the best parts of the Connect experience is seeing truly extraordinary individuals get up on stage and create can’t-miss moments with their insight, wisdom and, sometimes, sheer unbridled nerve. Here are just a few of the brave souls who dazzled this week.
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“I hope — at the end of the day, at the end of the two-year term — to be able to look back and say there was some stability and calm brought back into our organization and our industry,” NAR President Kevin Sears told a crowd of hundreds of onlookers in his first public appearance at an Inman Connect event.
In front of an audience with strong or mixed opinions about the role of NAR and its…