Features, Real Estate
LatestProperty disclosures: buyer retains a home inspector
by Amy Platero | Aug 20, 2026 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
Learn how a buyer agent uses a home inspection report (HIR) to confirm the condition of a property as disclosed by a seller or seller agent and advises their buyer on remedies for material defects in the property noted in an HIR but not disclosed prior to the seller entering into a purchase agreement.
FARM: 4 reasons to market your home in the fall
by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 19, 2026 | FARM Letters, Real Estate | 1
FARM: Back to School Checklist
by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 19, 2026 | FARM Letters, Real Estate | 0
Buyer Representation
Analyzing the buyer representation agreement
by Amy Platero | Mar 13, 2026 | 3
Learn to explain to your buyer and tenant clients the provisions contained within the buyer representation agreement and tenant representation agreement.
Buyer representation
by Amy Platero | Feb 26, 2026 | 15
Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer
by Amy Platero | Dec 5, 2025 | 0
Acceptance of an offer
by Amy Platero | Nov 5, 2025 | 0
Charts
Jobs move real estate
Homebuyers learn the risks of ARMs as FR...
Trending mortgage rates
More one-person households buying homes
Income inequality dampens California’s h...
California tiered home pricing
Student debt and work around for homeown...
Buyer purchasing power levels out in Q2 ...
California’s for-sale inventory growth: ...
California’s low homeownership rate to c...
California price-per-square-foot analysi...
Sacramento County housing indicators
Video
LatestFrom Human to Hardware: Maintaining the Standard of Oversight
by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence Training: Harnessing AI While Managing Risk™This third installment dramatizes a critical DRE parallel: an AI chatbot functions exactly like an unlicensed human assistant — meaning its output requires absolute broker oversight to avoid unlawful practice.
Fact-Checking Your Ghostwriter
by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 30, 2026
The Ghost in the Machine: Of Flesh and Silicon
by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 14, 2026
Recoverable Transactional and Operating Expenses
by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 2, 2026
Value Fluctuations During an Evolving Buyer’s Market
by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 17, 2026
Forms
Form-of-the-Week: Rental income rent rol...
Form-of-the-Week: Escrow instructions, a...
Form-of-the-Week: Partial payment agreem...
Form-of-the-Week: Credit report disclosu...
Form-of-the-Week: Purchase Agreement wit...
Analyzing the buyer representation agree...
Form-of-the-Week: Designated Officer Emp...
Form-of-the-Week: Natural Hazard Disclos...
Form-of-the-Week: Modification of Repres...
Form-of-the-Week: Commercial lease agree...
Form-of-the-Week: Landlord and Seller Re...








