Erica Christoffer

The real estate marketplace is changing quickly. New listing strategies, artificial intelligence and evolving consumer expectations are causing MLSs to rethink how they serve brokers, agents and consumers. For Shelley Specchio, CEO of the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS® (MIBOR) and Broker Listing Cooperative, the answer isn’t choosing between innovation and cooperation; it’s finding ways to strengthen both.

When Ryan Serhant takes the stage as a keynote speaker at NAR NXT this November in New Orleans, he’ll bring a business perspective shaped by some of the most challenging moments in modern real estate history. The founder and CEO of SERHANT. + Sell It by Serhant launched his real estate career in 2008, the same day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and helped trigger the Great Recession. More than a decade later, he started his own brokerage during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NAR CEO Nykia Wright speaks at the Board of Director’s Meeting, Thursday. A proposed addition to the National Association of REALTORS®’ Standards of Practice for Article 1 of the Code of Ethics sparked significant discussion during Thursday’s Board of Directors meeting at the 2026 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings. Ultimately, directors voted to send the recommendation back to committee for further review.