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REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY NEWS

News Corp., the parent company of realtor.com owner Move, announced Thursday that it brought in $2.48 billion in revenue during the final three months of 2019 — a figure that falls slightly short of analysts’ expectations.

The company’s earnings report revealed that in the final months of 2019, realtor.com’s mobile and web-based sites had about 59 million unique users, representing a 9 percent increase year-over-year. Mobile traffic represented more than half of those users. For most of 2019 realtor.com also gained audience share compared to competitors such as Zillow and Trulia.

COMMITTEE CORNER

The Public Relations Committee is excited to once again hold a crab raffle to benefit a worthwhile charitable organization -- Bayside Community Networks' Camp C.A.R.E.

Camp C.A.R.E. is the only summer camp in Cecil County that is staffed and equipped with trained, qualified personnel to offer a camp experience for children with disabilities from 5-20 years old. Camp C.A.R.E. is a day camp providing a positive experience for every child who attends and fills the need for summer programming for children with special needs. Bayside provides at-door pick up and drop off for those children in wheelchairs and a meeting point to pick up and drop off campers who do not require wheelchair accommodation.

In addition to winning a bushel of crabs, you will get 2-lbs of steamed shrimp + $25 gift certificate for your beverage of choice.

Ticket Prices: One for $5.00 / Six for $20.00

The winning ticket will be drawn on April 22 at  CCBOR's Expo & Convention  taking place at Rosewood Farms.

Tickets can be purchased from any of the Public Relation committee members (see below), or at the Board office. Tickets will also be available at our upcoming events and classes.

PR Committee Members: Danielle Ward, Chelle Bachman, Ronnie Boyd, Renee Hauf, Michele Burch, Al Peteraf, Carolyn Quelly, Mark Saunders, Mike Saunders, Dawn Wooldridge

The CARE Committee has worked diligently to proudly submit the charitable activities performed by our members each year for the CARE Award. This is a monetary award given to local board/associations or their charitable foundations recognizing awareness in community service and charitable actions. The $18,000 award will be equally divided between the large and small board winner. Throughout the years, Cecil County was awarded over $65,000 that we shared with local charities. We would love to win this award this year but need your help in doing so.

If you lead the activities for a 501(c) organization, provide us with the name of the organization, the activities that are conducted, and either how much money was raised and the impact it had on the geographical area and number of people serviced. For this year's award, the documented events must take place between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020.

One of the activities led by CCBOR is the extension of the food drive that was kicked off at the Holiday Party in December. Please drop off non-perishable food items at the Board office.

UPCOMING CARD EXCHANGES (Open to CCBOR Members Only)

UPCOMING CLASSE S

Register now for the 2-day CE special taking place February 13 and 20 at our facility. Download the schedule and remember, you can verify your credits taken here. Note that there are three more 2-day CE specials scheduled in 2020 -- May 12/19, September 15/22, and December 1/8.

February 13

February 20

The 2020 schedule for BrightMLS training is available here .

ADVERTISING RULES & GUIDELINES

Effective October 16, 2019, BrightMLS has initiated a new policy on Off-MLS Listings. This policy and details on "Coming Soon" and "Office Exclusive" are explained here . In addition, there is a new policy on Coming Soon for Rentals and New Construction - learn more here .

If you are licensed to sell real estate in the State of Maryland, please use this Advertising Checklist  that was prepared by the Maryland Real Estate Commission Note that Maryland does not make any distinction between any method of advertising -- print, electronic, business card, radio, television, etc. -- as far as Maryland is concerned, advertising is advertising and ALL advertising must comply with the requirements of Maryland law.

Also for your use, here is a  document prepared  by Bright MLS explaining the proper use of photographs in advertising.

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