Welcome to the new online meeting place for young real estate professionals and the official blog of REALTOR® Magazine's Young Professionals Network.

We've assembled a team of your peers from across the country to be regular contributors to this blog and provide you with timely insights into real estate and a place to exchange business ideas and make new contacts in the business. Our team of bloggers will talk about the latest in technology, market trends, sales and marketing, business challenges, and more. (Meet our team of bloggers.)

We hope you won't be passive readers either. Use the comment section to join in the conversation and gain recognition in our growing network.

To be sure you don't miss out on the conversation, on the lower right of the screen, you can subscribe to receive YPN Lounge e-mail updates — new blog posts will come straight to your e-mail. Just enter your e-mail address to sign up! Or, receive RSS feeds of blog entries that will be automatically loaded to your news reader.

And if you haven't already, make sure you submit an online membership profile to the Young Professionals Network so that you'll receive exclusive invitations to future YPN events. Membership is free. Our kickoff event at the REALTORS® Conference & Expo on Nov. 13 in Las Vegas drew more than 300 young professionals (View photos from the event).

So let's get blogging!

— Melissa Tracey
Associate Online Editor, REALTOR® magazine
YPN blog administrator