Real estate’s preview of what’s to come; Inventories rise as buyer demand dives; Jobs lost in the 2020 recession are fully recovered
The recession is imminent — for real estate, more of 2022; Monthly Statistical Update (January 2023)
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Arranging hard money trust deed mortgages
Learn how California real estate licensees can earn fees arranging business-purpose trust deed investments.
Form-of-the-Week: Equity Purchase Agreement and Equity Purchase Agreement with Short Sale Contingency — Forms 156 and 156-1
When an investor or dealer wants to purchase a residence in foreclosure, they use RPI Form 156 and 156-1 when it is a short sale.
MLO recession survival guide Part 4: Arranging mortgage originations for investors
Discover how to solicit and work with property investors during a recession.
Unused commercial space continues to convert into much-needed apartments
California’s housing shortage has a new source of aid: conversions from commercial property to much-needed multi-family units.
Millennials and Gen Z are your next property investor clients
A fast-growing, new wave of young investors are thinking big in 2022, and they’re thinking about — drum roll, please — investment property.
Plunging home values and few savings leave recent homebuyers unprepared to combat negative equity; Monthly Statistical Update (December 2022)
Heading into the 2023 recession with low savings rates; Jobs falter in step with the slowing economy; Leaping FRM rates slash purchasing power, home prices
Refinances oppose interest rate movement
Following record-smashing refinance volume in 2020-2021, refinances have quickly retreated into irrelevance.
California’s residential turnover rate hit a decade’s low in 2021
When turnover falls, so too does earning potential for agents and brokers.
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