Updated February 3, 2025
Several bills significant to California’s housing market were passed in 2024, including:
- AB 2992, which requires a buyer broker to enter into an employment agreement with a buyer as soon as practicable (ASAP), before offering to purchase property.
- SB 611, which prohibits a landlord from charging a tenant a fee for serving or posting an unlawful detainer notice or from receiving rent or security deposit checks from the tenant.
- AB 2373, which makes a tenancy unable to be terminated by a mobilehome park manager unless the manager has a valid permit issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
- AB 2747, which requires a landlord of residential property to offer a tenant the option of having the tenant’s positive rental payment information reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency, except for landlords of residential property with 15 or fewer units.
- SB 1146, which clarifies trustee sale procedures, how bids are made payable, when to automatically postpone a trustee’s sale and exempts small lenders who originate less than seven mortgages a year from Homeowner Bill of Rights (HBOR) reporting requirements;
- AB 2347, which extends eviction notice response time for tenants from 5 days to 10 days; and
- AB 2493, which permits a landlord to charge an application screening fee only when they know a rental unit is available and when the prospective tenant’s application is actually considered.
Editor’s note — Stay tuned to the firsttuesday Journal for a further analysis of all recently passed legislation.
Read on for the full list of bills for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Legislative Sessions and DRE Regulations which may substantially affect how you do business as a real estate licensee. Reports on passed bills can be found on our New Laws page. Current real estate law is here. This list is updated monthly.
All recent updates are in red below.
Status Legend:
Introduced = Date the bill was originally introduced for consideration. Bill is still being considered, but not yet law.
Amended = Date the bill was last amended. Bill is still being considered, but not yet law.
Enrolled = Bill approved by both houses and pending the governor’s signature.
Passed = Bill signed by the governor and passed into law.
Category | Bill | Status | Status Date | Description | |
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Practice | AB 2992 | Passed | 9/24/2024 | Requires a buyers broker to enter into an employment agreement with a buyer as soon as practicable (ASAP), before offering to purchase property. | |
Property Management | SB 611 | Passed | 9/19/2024 | Prohibits a landlord from charging a tenant a fee for serving or posting an unlawful detainer notice or from receiving rent or security deposit checks from the tenant. | |
Property Management | AB 2216 | Amended | 3/18/2024 | Prohibits a landlord from inquiring whether a prospective tenant plans to own a pet in the unit before accepting the tenant's application. | |
Government | AB 2278 | Amended | 3/21/2024 | Requires the attorney general to publish the maximum allowable rent increase for a 12-month period on its wesite for each metropolitan area by July 1st. | |
Common interest developments | AB 2778 | Amended | 3/21/2024 | Enacts rent caps for mobilehome parks. | |
Common interest developments | AB 2373 | Passed | 9/22/2024 | Makes a tenancy unable to be terminated by a mobilehome park manager unless the manager has a valid permit issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). | |
Property Management | AB 2747 | Passed | 9/19/2024 | Requires a landlord of residential property to offer a tenant the option of having the tenant's positive rental payment information reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency, except for landlords of residential property with 15 or fewer units. | |
Practice | SB 1366 | Passed | 6/14/2024 | Requires a seller of real estate with a water storage tank who received assistance with the water storage tank to provide to prospective buyers a disclosure statement. | |
Common interest developments | SB 1190 | Passed | 7/18/2024 | Makes it unlawful for a mobilehome park manager from prohibiting a resident from installing or maintaining a solar energy system on the property. | |
Property Management | AB 2059 | Introduced | 2/1/2024 | Protects a landlord from liability for dilapidations on their property rendering it unententable, unless the landlord receives notice of the condition and is given a reasonable time to repair the premises. | |
Finance | SB 1146 | Passed | 9/25/2024 | Clarifies trustee sale procedures, how bids are made payable, when to automatically postpone a trustee's sale and exempts small lenders who originate less than seven mortgages a year from Homeowner Bill of Rights (HBOR) reporting requirements. | |
Property Management | AB 2493 | Passed | 9/29/2024 | A landlord may only charge an application screening fee when they know a rental unit is available and when the prospective tenant's application is actually considered. | |
Common interest developments | SB 1408 | Passed | 7/2/2024 | Mobilehome park managers may not remove a vehicle in a homeowner's designated parking space unless they first post on the windshield a notice of the intent to remove the vehicle seven days prior. | |
Finance | AB 295 | Passed | 7/18/2024 | Prohibits a person from contacting, soliciting or initiating communication with an owner to claim surplus funds from a foreclosure sale of the owner's residence before 90 days after the trustee's deed has been required. | |
Legal Aspects | SB 1212 | Amended | 4/22/2024 | Requires property to be listed for sale to the general public for at least 60 days before a real estate investment trust (REIT) may offer to purchase the property. | |
Property Management | AB 2347 | Passed | 9/24/2024 | Extends eviction notice response time for tenants from 5 days to 10 days. | |
Construction | AB 1333 | Amended | 6/10/2024 | Prohibits two or more parcels of real estate from being sold at once to institutional investors. | |
Construction | AB 3122 | Passed | 9/27/2024 | Reduces the ability of a local government to impose objective planning standards adopted after the development application is first submitted, as long as the development objectives don't change dramatically from the initial application. | |
Insurance | AB 1 | Introduced | 12/02/2024 | Requires the Department of Insurance to consider updating its regulations on increasing building hardening measures and wildfire mitigation programs protecting residential property by January 1, 2030 and every five years thereafter. | |
Construction | AB 6 | Introduced | 12/02/2024 | Forms a working group to fund a report studying the effects of building three-to-ten residential unit property. | |
Government | AB 11 | Introduced | 12/02/2024 | Establishes a public entity to promote social housing, which is publicly owned, mixed-income housing removed from market forces. | |
Government | AB 87 | Introduced | 01/06/2025 | Prohibits the Density Bonus Law, which gives developers incentives for building low income housing, from including short-term rentals. | |
Finance | AB 238 | Introduced | 01/13/2025 | Allows mortgaged homeowners to request forbearance on their mortgage when affected by wildfires. | |
Government | AB 239 | Introduced | 01/13/2025 | Creates a task force to rebuild housing affected by wildfires in Los Angeles. | |
Taxation | AB 245 | Introduced | 01/14/2025 | Demands the legislature enact legislation that provides property tax relief to victims of disasters declared a state of emergency. | |
Property Management | AB 246 | Introduced | 01/15/2025 | Permits a district attorney to prosecute price gouging of rental prices during a state of emergency. | |
Construction | AB 253 | Introduced | 01/15/2025 | Speeds up the approval process for new construction by allowing homebuilders to hire a certified third-party reviewer to review housing permit applications when the local government fails to complete their review within 30 days. | |
Property Management | SB 52 | Introduced | 12/20/2024 | Prohibits algorithmic devices to be used to inform landlords what rent to charge their tenants. |