To Go Forward, We Must Go Back (Part 1): The Code of Ethics

The past is the best guidepost for what must happen in the future

In one of my final posts of 2023, I wrote about a 1993 paper written by William D. North, the former General Counsel of NAR from 1980 to 1986 and then EVP of NAR until 1991. I said that I would revisit that paper as it contained so much of relevance to our situation today.

That North was a singular figure in the annals of organized real estate who had en…