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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.
Latest Articles
Communicating with home inspectors
The real estate agent and home inspector are crucial figures in a home for sale — but do they need to get along?
ARM-FRM crossover removes last support for home prices
The interest rate inversion has completely eliminated the appeal of ARMs — and the price support ARMs provided before the inversion.
The votes are in: Appraiser discrimination is rare — here’s how to spot it
While rare, firsttuesday readers report firsthand experience of discrimination during the appraisal process.
Natural hazard disclosures and the seller’s agent
Gone are the days of minimal or delayed property disclosures.
Redlining practices cost LA-based lender $31 million in settlement
The largest redlining settlement in the Justice Department’s history involved a lender servicing Los Angeles who achieved disproportionately low numbers of mortgages from minority areas.
The mean price trendline: the home price anchor
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.
DRE Hot Seat: When mortgage originations go off the rails, repeatedly
This article is part of an ongoing series covering violations of real estate law. Here, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) revoked the real estate license of a broker who failed to disclose broker compensation received on mortgage origination forms, while also misrepresenting themselves as a lender and not as the buyer’s agent.
Cancellation excuses further performance
When is a buyer or seller entitled to exercise their right to cancel a purchase agreement and escrow instructions?
Errata & Updates
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.