President’s Message

President’s Message     Doug Martin It is gratifying to see NHCIBOR numbers growing every month. In March, we added 11 new REALTOR members and 3 affiliate members bringing our total membership to 548 (386 REALTORS and 162 affiliates). It … Continued

President’s Message    Doug W. Martin Hard to believe that spring is almost here. Even though this year is flying by and the market continues to be active on all fronts, our NHCIBOR group of volunteers are still hard at … Continued

President’s Message   Doug. W. Martin   Since becoming president, I have had a number of folks reach out looking to learn more about NHCIBOR and what our organization offers. There are many benefits available to our NHCIBOR group, which … Continued

    President’s Message        Doug W. Martin There are big shoes to fill as incoming president of NHCIBOR in 2019. I want to start by saying thank you to Ralph Valentine for your tremendous service over the … Continued

President’s Message   Ralph Valentine It has been an honor to serve both the NHCIBOR and NECPE membership, but there is more work to do.  While another year has passed, the work never ends. We must be vigilant to a … Continued

President’s Message    Ralph Valentine This month’s message is a follow up as it relates to the local, regional and national databases.   NAR is in the process of making a choice of provider from among 3 vendors, one of which … Continued

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Ralph Valentine   As New England based commercial real estate practitioners, we are all dealing with the tugging and pulling going on among the local, regional and national databases.  There are commercial-only databases, sometimes known as CIE’s or … Continued

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Ralph Valentine This month’s topic builds on a previous theme: Volunteerism.  When volunteers serve, they attach more importance to serving the CRE community than to serving themselves.   They aspire to the principle of donating time and energy for … Continued

President’s Message   Ralph Valentine Advocacy: support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.  Did you know that RPAC, NAR’s Realtors Political Action Committee is one of the largest and most influential political advocacy organizations in the country? … Continued

President’s Message Ralph Valentine 2018 Volunteerism Have you given thought to just how important and how powerful volunteerism is? One large group of volunteers and one paid staff member operate NHCIBOR, NECPE and NHCIBOR Cares.  Think about that, and with … Continued

President’s Message Ralph Valentine 2018 CIBOR needs your help.   There are 2 bills floating around Concord which could allow the representation of parties to a real estate sale or lease WITHOUT A LICENSE.   That’s right, in the biggest financial transaction … Continued

President’s Message Ralph Valentine 2018 What is most welcoming about this position is that the membership is willing to reach out to me directly about an issue which is of concern to them.  One of those issues is that there … Continued