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The April 2021 DFPI Bulletin focuses on COVID-19 relief, PACE solicitor sanctions and financial education grants. Editor’s note — The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI, formerly the Department of Business Oversight), supervises,...
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The March 2021 DFPI Bulletin focuses on the upcoming Economic Equity Conference, Assembly Bill (AB) 857, CalMoneySmart grants and annual report deadlines. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI, formerly the Department of Business...
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A Los Angeles Times report explores how crime-free housing policies not only hurt Black and Latinx renters, but the California real estate market as a whole.
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The foreclosure moratorium that has kept jobless Californians in their homes during the ongoing recession has been extended yet again.
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Form-of-the-Week: Declaration of Homestead and Automatic Homestead – Form 465
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To lessen housing production delays amidst California’s affordable housing shortage, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1561 on September 28, 2020. This bill extends certain housing entitlements, in an effort to decrease disruptions in housing...
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Russell v. Man
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Read about The Career Compass’s ongoing battle with the DRE and CAR, highlighting the need for the DRE to foment competition and compliance equally among all course providers — including CAR.
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California’s 2020 fire season was the largest recorded in the state’s modern history. In total, it claimed over 10,000 structures and displaced countless more Californians. On September 24, 2020, Governor Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 2013, a bill protecting...
read moreChapter 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.”