Understand the steps required for a CEQA review of a proposed project — and when a project is exempt.
A California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) primer
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Due Diligence and Disclosures
Get the most for your clients and protect your hard-earned fee by reviewing the forms you’ll encounter in brokerage services. Stay current on the latest news, videos, forms, and updates for Due Diligence and Disclosures.
Recent updates to the course e-book
Chapter 2: The MLS environment. The updated statutory Agency Law Disclosure
and confirmation provision went into effect the beginning of 2019. Both the
content of the form and when it is to be used have been modified. For a
thorough analysis of the new disclosure and confirmation practices, see the
January 2019 article, What you need to know about the refreshed – and mostly
improved – Agency Law Disclosure.
Chapter 32: The breaching buyer’s responsibilities. The first subhead on page
350 should read “Interest depends on property use.”
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
Newly published related content
No more unsolicited offers on homes lost in LA wildfires
A new law prohibits investors and their agents from swooping in after a fire and submitting offers to homeowners who have not yet marketed their property for sale.
Homeowners insurance and wildfires
California legislation has evolved to provide more certainty of payment on claims made by property owners with coverage for wildfires.
Form-of-the-Week: Modification of Representation Agreement and Release and Cancellation of Employment Agreement — Forms 120 and 121
After entering into a representation agreement with a client, an agent uses the Modification of Representation Agreement to change the terms of the employment without canceling it and to terminate the authorization to represent, an agent uses the Release and Cancellation of Representation Agreement.
Real estate photography as advertised
New legislation mandates transparency in real estate photography by requiring labels for digitally manipulated images used in advertising and promotion.
Environmental disclosures big and small
New legislation mandates disclosure of tobacco and nicotine products as a common environmental hazard.
Homeowners insurance payouts to increase following a state of emergency
A new law holds insurers to higher standards when responding to homes destroyed resulting from a state of emergency.
New law pushes ADUs as housing following the LA wildfires
A new law is wresting control from the Coastal Commission on ADUs.
Builder controlled CC&R modifications to allow new housing
What earlier developers did in their CC&Rs, today’s home developer can now undo.