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Real Estate Practice
Master the forms needed most in brokerage services. This volume covers the agency, disclosure, and contract law concepts fundamental to your practice.
Our Real Estate Practice course meets SB 1495 requirements: Implicit Bias and Fair Housing.
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 rise and fall of real estate brokers and agents
This article analyzes the historical population of active DRE licensees, with discussions and forecasts about future licensing trends.
Form-of-the-Week: Partial payment agreement — Forms 558 and 559
Commercial landlords and tenants agreeing to partial payments use RPI Form 558, and residential landlords and tenants use RPI Form 559. The forms commit to writing the portion of remaining delinquent rent the tenant owes the landlord, the date the balance is due, and when not paid by the due date, what action the landlord may take to enforce payment.
The seller agent and the prospective buyer
Learn the difference between a broker’s specific agency duty owed only to their client and the limited general duty they owe to others in a transaction and how to observe and disclose conditions adversely affecting value and qualify statements when they are opinions, not facts.
The due diligence effort for an opinion of value
WLearn the due diligence obligations required from a broker to a client when performing, drafting, delivering and maintaining records for a broker price opinion (BPO).
Real estate runs with the labor force participation rate
Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions
California tiered home pricing
Home prices continued to slide across California in November 2025.
Jobs move real estate
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
Low ARM rates fuel unacceptable mortgage risks
The average ARM rate remains below the FRM rate, enticing potential homebuyers unaware of its history.