What changes are ahead following the landmark lawsuit against NAR?
Changes to agent fees following the NAR® lawsuit
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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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CalPaces for Recruiting: A broker’s recruiting plan
This is the first article in our series covering broker recruitment strategies. This article details how a broker’s business model, recruiting plan and recruiting goals are developed and maintained to help a brokerage function at its highest capacity and avoid becoming a stagnate office.
Updates coming to Environmental Hazards Booklet handed to buyers
A new law requires three new sections to be added to the Environmental Hazards booklet.
Mortgage Concepts: Timelines for lender RESPA disclosures
This video covers delivery of the Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure.
Mortgage Concepts: Regulation of Appraisal Management Companies, a middleman for appraiser independence from lenders
Learn how AMCs operate in California to maintain appraiser independence.
Sales volume trends, from a weak year; Monthly Statistical Update (December 2023)
Sales volume after 2023’s puny seasonal bounce; Sales volume is weakening, but a recovery lurks; MLS inventory flatlines, buyers and sellers wait
Governor appoints new DRE Commissioner
Chika Sunquist will step into the Commissioner role at the start of 2024.
Conflicts of interest facing appraisers and mortgage lenders
An appraiser must not have a direct or indirect interest, financial, personal or otherwise, in the property they have been retained to prepare an appraisal.
DRE Commissioner to retire
DRE Commissioner, Doug McCauley, will retire at the end of 2023.