Learn how to manage licensed activities as a seller agent from soliciting a seller-client and organizing the marketing of their property through closing a transaction.
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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
The language(s) of a transparent eviction summons
Assembly Bill 863 tasks the Judicial Council by 2027 to create a single summons form translated into multiple languages for use in any civil action.
CFPB cuts into mortgage discrimination rules
A new CFPB federal rule shaves down the definition for what lender actions qualify as mortgage discrimination.
Lot splitting in historic districts permits new housing
A loophole allowed local agencies to designate neighborhoods as “historic districts” barring additional housing by ordinance. Now, that local loophole is removed. Parcels in historic districts may now be subdivided and each lot constructed with a duplex.
Disaster relief delivered at the reception desk
AB 299 sets protections for residents displaced by a disaster staying in short-term lodging for longer than 30 days.
Streamlined post-entitlement phase permit process in California
State departments may now approve housing plans, and all agencies now have tighter review timelines, or a building permit application is deemed complete.
A Designated Officer’s diligence guidance
Learn about a designated officer’s duties to maintain corporate and employee compliance with Real Estate Law.
May a landlord recover possession of their leased premises from a tenant when the landlord provides a deficient three-day notice to pay rent or quit?
Eshagian v. Cepeda
Rebuilding homes after a disaster now easier and less restrictive in California
Homebuilders rebuilding residential structures damaged or destroyed in a disaster now encounter fewer hurdles when the home is located in a common interest development (CID) or a planned residential project.