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As most of you are aware, the NAR Board of Directors approved a motion in 2023 that beginning in January 2025, all active (Status A and P) Realtors and Realtor Associates (Member Type R and RA) must take a fair housing course every 3 years.
The M1 Beta system has been updated so AMSs can start their testing and we have notified our M1 Tech distribution group and updated their developers documentation.
We wanted to let the associations know how this will work in M1 and answer any questions you may have and provide the following information.
POLICY
All active R/RA members must take a fair housing course every 3 years.
This requirement begins January 1 2025 and the first cycle will run January 1 2025 through December 31 2027.
For any member who does not meet this requirement by the deadline, the POEs will change the member’s status to the special status S (just as you do for COE) and by March 1 the POE will terminate the members (Status T) who have not met this requirement.
Realtor Emeritus are exempt starting the year after they are approved by Emeritus by NAR’s BOD (just the same as with NAR dues and the COE waivers).
There is no “new” fair housing course for New Members. The associations need to make sure that as part of their new member orientation their new member completes one of the fair housing courses.
Anything the member may have done for fair housing courses before January 1 2025 will not count so they cannot use a course they took in 2024 for example to count for this requirement.
PROCESS
There will be six options the member can choose from to meet this requirement. Four of those are hosted by NAR and NAR will add the course to M1.
The first cycle (2025-2027) will be called Cycle 8 to match up with COE which will also be Cycle 8 for consistency.
It is important to note that the option the member uses in a cycle cannot be re-used for a following cycle and must be completed within the cycle. So if, for example, if a member earns the AHWD certification, for it to count it must be earned within the cycle and cannot be used again for a future cycle.
The options are:
Fair Haven (Course Code FHVN). This is an online, free, self paced course hosted by NAR. NAR will add these records to M1. POEs will not be able to add, change or delete these records.
Note: this is not the same as the current Fair Haven. Fair Haven is currently being rewritten to be longer and contain more content and will be ready by January 2025.
Bias Override (Course Code BOVR). This course is live (in person or online) and is an NAR course. NAR will add these records to M1. POEs will not be able to add, change or delete these records.
At Home With Diversity Course Only (Course Code HWD). Member can take the AHWD course without going on to earn the certification. The “course only” option will count as a fair housing course. This is an NAR course and NAR will add these records to M1. POEs will not be able to add, change or delete these records.
At Home with Diversity Certification (AHWD). This remains as an NAR certification and NAR will continue to add this certification in M1. Please note a member can use this as an option only once and only for the cycle in which they earn this certification.
Fair Housing course (FAIRH) – associations can develop their own fair housing course for this requirement. When associations do this, they are responsible for adding this course code to M1
Also, states can also work with their state licensing bodies to include our fair housing as part of their licensing process. Again, associations would be responsible for adding this to M1. In both cases, the Course Code is FAIRH.
Note: when developing your own course, the time length and content outline requirements have been set by NAR and you need to follow that when developing your course. That information will be included in the July issue of M1 News which will publish at the end of July.
As with COE, any POE can add a FAIRH for any member in M1.
Special note about C2EX: having the C2EX endorsement in and of itself is not an option for this requirement. However, part of earning the C2EX endorsement is completing the Fair Haven course. As an NAR course, NAR will add the Fair Haven course to M1, and again it must be taken within a cycle for it to count for that cycle, so you will see this represented in the M1 reports as Fair Haven.
TOOLS
We will have the following tools for POEs in place in M1 by the start of the cycle (January 2025).
Member record accordion: when viewing a member record in M1 you will see an accordion for Fair Housing that will show any FHVN, BOVR, HWD or FAIRH courses added to the member’s record. As AHWD is a Certification and will remain so, that will continue to appear in the Certification accordion.
Fair Housing Report: the M1 home page will have a Fair Housing report, very similar to the Code of Ethics one where the POE can run a ‘with’ or ‘without’ report and print or save as csv.
Fair Housing Dashboard: the M1 Insights Dashboard will have a Fair Housing dashboard, very similar to the Code of Ethics one where the POE can view Complete and Incomplete.
Please note there will be one difference with the Fair Housing reports and dashboards as opposed to the COE one. You may have members who decide to do more than one option. They may complete both the Fair Haven and Bias Override for example. When this happens they will appear on the report and dashboard as many times as the options they complete. The statistics on the dashboard will only count the member once.
Please be sure to watch the monthly M1 News between now and January for more information.
And be sure to contact us with any questions.
M1/Ecommerce Support Group
poesupport@nar.realtor
1-800-868-3225
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