How the coronavirus is impacting California’s housing market The coronavirus is making waves across the global economy in 2020.
The votes are in: Clients don’t pull their credit report before mortgage pre-approval Regular credit monitoring can boost your clients' mortgage approval odds.
Correlation of Values and Creation of the Appraisal Report Reconciliation of property values and creation of a completed Uniform Residential Appraisal Report.
Letter to the editor: Who performs the maintenance and repairs: the tenant, or the landlord? The landlord and tenant share responsibilities in maintaining a rental unit.
San Diego housing indicators 40,100 home sales closed in San Diego during 2019, up 1% from 2018.
Santa Clara housing indicators 16,300 home sales closed in Santa Clara County during 2019, a 9% decrease from 2018.
Using the yield spread to forecast recessions and recoveries In February 2020, the yield spread fell into negative territory, averaging -0.01 points.
Current market rates The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell to 3.29% in the week ending March 6, 2020.
Leasehold Improvement Provisions and Promises This video covers further-improvement provisions in a commercial lease and permissive and mandatory improvements.
form updates this month
Coming soon! A new series of Tenant Protection Act (TPA) forms will be published on the RPI Forms Download page in the coming weeks. The new forms are used by landlords of properties subject to AB 1482 which limits annual rent increases to 5% plus the rate of inflation, and requires “just cause” to evict tenants who have occupied a unit for 12 months or more. An exhaustive article will be published in conjunction with the release of the new forms.
To access all updated forms, view our RPI Forms library
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