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Real Estate Compliance Consultant and former California Department of Real Estate (DRE) Investigator, Summer Goralik, shares advice on maintaining an active real estate license.
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An overview of transfers automatically excluded from reassessment.
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Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021 One of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises was to help Americans buy quality housing through financial assistance. To make good on this promise, his administration is to introduce the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021....
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For a peek into 2021, learn what legislation California lawmakers are reviving from 2020.
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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
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.”