2012 Annual Conference ~ Orlando, Florida

Join the nation’s most innovative and successful executives of diversified real estate, mortgage, and title/settlement service companies at RESPRO®’s 2012 Annual Conference on March 26-27, 2012 at the Bonnet Creek Hilton Hotel in Orlando, Florida!

The conference will be full of the quality “Best Practices” Sessions, Regulatory Compliance Workshops, and Idea-Sharing Roundtables that RESPRO® Annual Conference attendees have come to expect. And for the third consecutive year, we’ve teamed up with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) to provide back-to-back conferences that will save money and time for our mutual members!

RESPRO® will be announcing speakers and sessions over the coming month. To date, this year’s Conference Highlights include:

  • Alex Periello, President and CEO, Realogy Franchise Group: Alex Perriello serves as president and CEO of the Realogy Franchise Group and oversees the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, ERA and Sotheby's International Realty real estate brands; combined they represent about 14,700 franchised and company-owned offices with 267,000 brokers and sales associates in 100 countries around the world. Perriello is responsible for the franchise group's shared support services, including domestic and international franchise sales, administration, finance, business development, information technology, learning and human resources, as well as for ONCOR International, an international commercial real estate referral network.
     
  • Mortgage Bankers Association President & CEO David Stevens: The former FHA Commissioner will share his insights on the unprecedented challenges the mortgage industry will face in 2012 and beyond with the implementation of Dodd-Frank, a fully-empowered Consumer Financial Protection Agency, as well as what this year’s elections could mean for our industries
     
  • Lisa Bloom, Journalist, Television Legal Analyst, and Trial Attorney: “Feisty, articulate and driven” are three words the Philadelphia Inquirer used to describe RESPRO® Opening General Session speaker Lisa Bloom. Ms. Bloom is an award winning journalist, television legal analyst, trial attorney, and daughter of renowned women’s rights attorney, Gloria Allred. As a daily fixture on American television for the last decade, she is a CBS News Legal Analyst, appears regularly on The Early Show, The Dr. Phil Show, CNN and HLN prime time shows such as Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, The Joy Behar Show, AC 360, and The Situation Room. She has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, Today, Good Morning America, Rachael Ray, and many more.
     
  • Key Factors in the Referral of Homebuyers to Mortgage Originators - The Latest National Survey Results: Hear the results of a national February 2012 Survey by Campbell Surveys and Inside Mortgage Finance on the factors that drive home purchase loan referrals by real estate agents to mortgage lenders. Real estate brokerage companies and mortgage firms not only can learn about the most important features that real estate agents look for in a mortgage lender, but also the current proportion of home purchase mortgage decisions controlled or influenced by real estate agents, the importance of joint ventures in referrals to specific mortgage lender, and comparative ratings of mortgage originators on multiple service factors.
     
  • Innovative Ideas in One-Stop Shopping! An idea-sharing session where RESPRO® members can share the most innovative approaches they have used over the past year to grow their revenues from their affiliated businesses and to increase their capture rates.
     
  • “Best Practices” on Growing Your Diversified Businesses: Workshops featuring the nation’s most successful affiliated business executives, who will share advice and ideas on how to maximize revenues from your affiliated businesses and strategic partnerships.
     
  • The Latest from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection: An official from the federal agency that Dodd-Frank gave broad new regulatory authority over real estate brokerage firms, mortgage companies, and title/settlement service providers will share what the Bureau’s top regulatory initiatives are for 2012 and beyond.
     
  • How to Prepare Your Affiliated Businesses for Dodd-Frank: The implementation of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act throughout 2012 and 2013 will particularly impact mortgage lenders with affiliated businesses through its Qualified Mortgage (QM) standards, Qualified Residential Mortgage standards, state preemption requirements, transfer of RESPA affiliated business regulation/enforcement from HUD to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPB), and more. Dodd-Frank legal experts will provide an overview of Dodd-Frank provisions unique to affiliated businesses and give advice on how you can prepare for them
     
  • The Latest RESPA Regulatory Compliance Advice: From the nation’s leading RESPA experts, designed to help you make sure that your affiliated businesses and marketing agreements are legally-compliant and that you price your services without inviting regulatory scrutiny.
     
  • How the Courts Will Affect Your Affiliated Businesses in 2012: The Supreme Court will rule in the first half of 2012 on two of the most significant cases in history affecting real estate brokerage, mortgage, and title/settlement service companies – Edwards v. First American and Freeman v. Quicken Loans. Hear about how the outcome of these cases will affect class action lawsuits in the residential home buying and financing industry and the way you price your real estate brokerage, mortgage, and title/settlement services.
     
  • Networking, Networking and Networking: RESPRO®’s Annual Conference offers you great opportunities to network with leading executives across industry lines who have the same diversified strategies as you.
         
  • Savings for LeadingRE Members! Take advantage of a unique opportunity to attend both the RESPRO® and LeadingRE conferences at a manageable cost! RESPRO® and LeadingRE have teamed up to provide discounted registration rates to those who would like to attend both conferences. RESPRO® offers other discounts for LeadingRE members who would like to attend or to have others in their company attend the RESPRO® Annual Conference. For further information, contact Rae Brevard.

     
Savings if you join RESPRO®!
Not a RESPRO® member? Join RESPRO when you register for the 2011 Annual Conference to receive $200 off your non-member registration fee and choose either an additional $100 discount off your registration of a free button advertisement on RESPRO®'s home page for 3 months.