Dale Ross for NAR Treasurer in 2011
Integrity, Experience, Vision
RPAC Golden R
Presidents Circle
As a real estate consultant and/or broker to many companies, Dale is involved with asset management, renovations, and sales disposition of commercial and residential ground, hotels, multi-family apartment buildings, shopping centers, and office buildings. His activities also include negotiations with lenders, limited partners, developers, and investors; preparation of property budgets; contract negotiations; and working with franchise companies, tenants and other related parties in various capacities. As the owner's representative for commercial properties totaling in excess of $300 million, he has been directly responsible for the hiring, training, and supervision of thousands of employees in various capacities. He has more than thirty years experience as a broker in residential and commercial real estate and property management. He holds real estate brokers' licenses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In 1984, Dale formed Pioneer Realty, Inc. as a boutique real estate company, specializing in residential and commercial investments.
In 1994, he co-founded the Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. (MRIS) and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. MRIS employs more than 140 technical and customer service people, and serves more than 53,000 real estate practitioners with their multiple listing, Intranet, Internet and other real estate information technology needs in Maryland, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. MRIS is the country's largest regional system of its kind with its own regional portal, HomesDatabase.com.
In 1985, Dale served as President of the Montgomery Association of REALTORS®. Four years later, he became the youngest member to be elected President of the Maryland Association of REALTORS®, which serves more than 30,000 REALTOR® members in the state of Maryland. In 2001, Dale became a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Housing Foundation, Inc. a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization funded with seed money from the Maryland Association of REALTORS®. He became President of the Partnership in 2004. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the real estate community, in 2001, he was awarded Maryland Association of REALTORS® Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dale is serving his seventeenth year as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). With more than 1.3 million members, NAR is the largest trade association in the county. He served three consecutive terms as NAR's chairman of the Building Advisory Committee, which operates and manages its multi-million dollar real estate portfolio. In addition, he is serving his ninth year on NAR's Finance Committee. Dale also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the REALTORS® Information Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of NAR, which developed realtor.com, one of the most active web sites in the country. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NAR's Second Century Ventures LLC, which invests in new technologies for REALTORS®, and is current chairman of the REALTORS® Property Resource Group. He is a member of both the NAR Presidents Circle and NAR's RPAC Hall of Fame.