In August 2021, the typical U.S. renter household spent 30.3% of its income on rent, just over the 30% threshold at which a household is considered rent burdened.
Rent or food — you pick
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Legal Aspects of Real Estate
Back up your sales acumen by diving into the legal aspects of California real estate.
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Recent updates to the course e-book
- In Chapter 25, references to “a intervivos trust” should be “an intervivos trust.”
- In Chapter 33, in the third bullet point beginning “55 or older with an annual income…”, $15,000
should be $25,000 and $20,000 should be $35,000. - Answer Key for Quiz 9, Question 2. The correct answer should be “d.”, not “c.
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
Newly published related content
New law requires implicit bias training for real estate professionals
Implicit bias training will be incorporated in both pre-licensing and continuing education courses beginning in 2023.
New study sheds light on housing planning issues
When housing planners zig, builders zag. That’s the story of California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), the instrument the state uses to determine where and how much affordable housing is to be built. But the Golden State’s reputation for affordable...
Dept of Housing and Community Development flexes new enforcement powers
The California department overseeing the Surplus Land Act is beginning to issue warnings to local agencies that do not provide a portion of their land for low-income housing.
What does the end of single-family zoning look like?
Now that single-family zoning in California is done away with, what does the future look like?
Redlining: its history and lasting impacts
Redlining maps which color-coded and documented the creditworthiness of neighborhoods in the 1930s continue to negatively affect the lower-graded neighborhoods today.
Latinx homeownership still trails behind white homeownership
Racial wealth gaps severely impact California’s homeownership rate and as a result, agent’s businesses.
Brokerage Reminder: Buckle up and look both ways!
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Brokerage Reminder: Protect yourself – and your clients – against adverse possession
A weekly reminder to stay on top of your practice from first tuesday’s in-house broker!