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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.
Delivery of property disclosures to buyers is legislated to occur “as soon as practicable” (ASAP) on inquiry from a prospective buyer, well before a purchase agreement setting a price is entered into.
A broker employed by a landlord to market the property to tenants, screen tenants and negotiate lease terms in exchange for a fee uses a Landlord Representation Agreement — the leasing equivalent of a Seller Representation Agreement.
California’s legislature continues to tackle the state’s decade long housing shortage.
SB 1146 clarifies some foreclosure protections while letting mortgage servicers off the hook for others.
Learn when a binding agreement to buy and sell real estate is formed and how to assist clients by preparing and submitting or responding to an offer to buy real estate.
This article presents the appropriate reaction to a seller broker’s attempt to simultaneously fee-fix and unlawfully induce a buyer broker to violate California’s buyer representation agreement law.
Learn the contract elements comprising an enforceable agreement and how to manage the submission of an offer for the sale, lease or exchange of real estate.
Declining DFPI licensee numbers, and the fees they charge, means the remaining individuals need to pick up the slack — with their wallets.
Learn to determine when a buyer’s breach of a purchase agreement and escrow instructions entitles a seller to recover monetary losses and intelligently discuss a seller’s recovery of losses on a resale following their buyer’s breach of a purchase agreement.