PAR Update on State’s Phased Reopen Plan for PA
PAR staff Hank Lerner, Esq., director of law and policy, and Alex Charlton, director of public policy and political affairs, provide an update on Gov. Tom Wolf’s announced plan for reopening businesses.
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House Passes Bill to Allow Real Estate Services to Reopen
House Bill 2412 passed the state House yesterday and now moves to the Senate, where it will require committee consideration and undergo consideration in the Senate.
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PAR Issues Call-to-Action on House Bill 2412
Contact your representatives to urge them to vote “yes” on House Bill 2412 (Polinchock, R-Bucks), which would allow real estate services to reopen across the state.
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PAR Gives Testimony on COVID-19 Impact on Real Estate to Senate
PAR President Bill Festa spoke yesterday on behalf of the association to a joint Senate hearing regarding the state’s COVID-19 response and impact to the real estate industry.
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Signed Senate Bill 841 Has Three Real Estate-Related Issues
Gov. Tom Wolf signed Senate Bill 841 yesterday and is effective immediately. Though most of the bill is on different topics, it contains three elements relevant to real estate.
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Nearly 8,000 Realtors® Respond to PAR’s Call-to-Action
Senate Bill 613 passed the Pennsylvania House yesterday and now moves to the Pennsylvania Senate for concurrence.
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Call-to-Action Urges Legislators to Allow Real Estate as Life-Sustaining Industry
Pennsylvania Realtors® are asked to contact their state representatives and ask them to vote “yes” on Senate Bill 613 (Mensch, R-Montgomery), as amended, to allow real estate service providers to be designated as a life-sustaining industry.
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Governor Authorizes Temporary Use of Remote Online Notarization
Gov. Tom Wolf approves a temporary notarial rule suspension to allow for remote online notarization of documents in a limited category of real estate transactions.
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Updates on COVID-19 and Real Estate in Pennsylvania
Since real estate transactions are dependent on so many third-party service providers, the complexity of each individual question is complicated by many orders of magnitude.
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HUD Issues Fair Housing Guidance Relating to Assistance Animals
Guidance clarifying how housing providers can comply with the Fair Housing Act when assessing a person’s request to have an assistance animal because of a disability was issued this week by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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