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06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
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.
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.