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Income Property Brokerage
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Recent updates to the course e-book
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
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The downward trend shaping California home sales volume
Home sales volume continues to decline in 2019.
Boomers retire and California reinvents their housing, again
Retiring Baby Boomers shift California’s future direction of real estate ownership.
30 years of summer, followed by 30 years of winter
Mortgage rates are on their way up.
Buyer Purchasing Power Index flattens in Q3 2025
The California Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) tells us a homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 1.47% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago.
Form-of-the-Week: Commercial lease agreements — Gross variety — 552 and 552-1
A landlord, tenant, leasing agent or property manager uses a Commercial Lease Agreement of the gross variety for projects with a single tenant or multiple tenants when the landlord retains the obligations to manage and pay for most or all property operating expenses such as property taxes, insurance and maintenance during the tenancy.
Increased protections for small commercial tenants
A qualified commercial tenant receives tenant protections, including a longer period of time for notice of an increase in rent and termination of tenancy, more documentation in a change of building operating costs charged the tenant and translation requirements when negotiating a lease agreement.
California household formations set to decrease
While the number of households continues to grow, the rise is mostly thanks to renters.
Form-of-the-Week: Commercial Lease Agreements — Net variety — Forms 552-2 and 552-3
A landlord, tenant, leasing agent or property manager uses a Commercial Lease Agreement of the net variety for a single-user tenant to document the terms of the tenancy negotiated when the payment of most or all property operating expenses including property taxes, insurance and maintenance incurred during the tenancy is shifted to the tenant.