Every two years WREAA selects a recipient for the Wisconsin Real Estate Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize the successes and contributions of an individual or firm to the real estate process. Each recipient has demonstrated an ability to successfully integrate both a business and social ethic within the real estate process. The WREAA Board encourages the participation of the membership in the selection process of the award recipient. Nominations and supporting information should be forwarded to the respective Regional Director or the WREAA Office.
This award is given in the spirit and tradition of the Wisconsin Real Estate philosophy. This philosophy is articulated best by the following two quotes of the late James A. Graaskamp:
The ideal objective is a renaissance individual with a real estate major who thinks in terms of process, in order to accommodate in the future the accelerating changes in technology and law in real estate. The overall objective is to project a lifelong realization that real estate is not a number crunching exercise but is a series of problem solving opportunities which interface practical tools of applied social science with every major issue of our time in terms of the conservation of both our people and our natural resources.
Real estate should be taught as a process of dynamic interactions rather than functional or historical facts. The result should be a real estate entrepreneur with the creativity of Leonardo DaVinci, the sensitivity of the natural world of John Muir, and the political humanity with cash management for profit skills of James Rouse. Of course, the graduate student should be something more!
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