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Real Estate Principles: Video™
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Dual agency piles conflicts and risks on brokers
Learn to identify conduct giving rise to dual agency representation and understand dual agency as a conflict of interest requiring prompt disclosure and consent.
Jobs move real estate
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
An agent’s perception of riches
Learn to estimate the potential income, expenses and initial investment you experience as a newly licensed agent employed by a broker and how to evaluate competing broker firms for suitability with your professional goals and expectations.
California’s for sale inventory growth: waning buyer enthusiasm
In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
Different types of estates and ways of dividing real estate
An owner’s rights extend beyond the mere physical aspects of the land, airspace and improvements located within the described boundaries of the parcel.
Broker activities: by the agent of the agent
Learn how brokers oversee agents, the office policies a broker puts in place to comply with their duties owed to clients and the Department of Real Estate (DRE), and how licensee status relates to labor regulations, taxation and issues of liability.
Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ brings firsttuesday students up to speed with 2025 buyer legislation
The Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ is available to current and future firsttuesday students without charge. The Bonus Training contains everything brokers and agents need to operate successfully in the new paradigm — the buyer representation mandate in 2025 and beyond.
California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
Errata & Updates
- Effective January 1st, 2021, California homeowners qualify for a net equity homestead protection of up to $300,000 or the median sale price for a single family residence (SFR) in the homeowner’s county in the calendar year prior to the year in which they claim the exemption, not to exceed $600,000 (adjusted annually for inflation). [CCP §704.730] For more on this topic, see Form-of-the-Week: Homestead exemption, an asset preservation declaration – Form 465