Kreg Allison, the new director of the Division of Real Estate for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), introduced himself to members of the Illinois Association of REALTORS® on Wednesday at the group’s Public Policy meetings in East Peoria.

Allison previously worked as senior counsel for Avison Young, a commercial real estate services firm, and said he understands the perspective of real estate professionals.

He was joined Wednesday by IDFPR Secretary Bryan Schneider as they fielded questions from REALTORS® on topics such as IDFPR processing time frames, state-specific testing criteria, licencing issues involved real estate teams and more. Schneider said two priorities for IDFPR are to improve processing times and transition the department to being less paper-oriented.