California’s homeownership rate dropped even as the typical age of first-time homebuyers rose.
Will first-time homebuyers save California’s homeownership rate?
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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
California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
The mean price trendline: the home price pivot
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.
Lack of Due Diligence
Some real estate brokers simply don’t measure up. Watch what happens when a seller broker’s efforts to market a property and locate buyers lack sufficient due diligence activities.
Santa Clara County regional housing indicators
Santa Clara’s housing market is experiencing the downfall from 2021’s pandemic bounce.
Fees for withdrawal or termination of a representation agreement
Learn to protect your broker’s right to collect a fee when a seller-client removes their property from the market or cancels the representation agreement.
Down payment download: Why 20%
The first in the series introducing the benefits available to mortgage-funded buyers when acquiring home ownership using a 20% cash down payment.
A Fee Earned by the Seller Broker on Any Sale
See how a fee has been earned and is owed to the seller broker, regardless of who produces a buyer or a tenant during the representation period or when the transaction closes, under an exclusive representation agreement.
Nationally MLOs are far fewer in 2024; CA DRE MLOs increase, DFPI MLOs decrease
The trend for state-licensed MLOs is down in 2024.
Errata & Updates
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.