California homebuyers are able to borrow 31% less than a year earlier due to higher interest rates alone.
Press Release: Buyer Purchasing Power Index ends 2022 31% below a year earlier
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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
The recession is imminent — for real estate, more of 2022; Monthly Statistical Update (January 2023)
Real estate’s preview of what’s to come; Inventories rise as buyer demand dives; Jobs lost in the 2020 recession are fully recovered
DRE Hot Seat: Broker fails to supervise or disclose an overt conflict of interest
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 real estate corporation, later leading the designated officer to voluntarily surrender their broker license, for allowing an unlicensed employee to solicit and contract with their principal, and failing to disclose a conflict of interest.
Form-of-the-Week: A comparative market analysis for setting prices and rents — Forms 318 and 318-1
A seller’s agent uses RPI Forms 318 and 318-1 when educating the seller on a reasonable asking price or rental amount for the property.
California real estate: 2022 in review and a forecast for 2023
Read about the legislative changes and economic shifts which impacted real estate professionals during 2022 – and our forecast for 2023.
Arranging hard money trust deed mortgages
Learn how California real estate licensees can earn fees arranging business-purpose trust deed investments.
Hiring newly-minted real estate agents in a recession
Now is the instructive period of a business cycle which positions talented, recent licensees to max out the good times in the recovery phase of a business cycle.
Lack of diversity among real estate professionals reduces fees
Building a diverse real estate team creates better opportunities for financial growth.
The evolution of the “rogue agent” defense in real estate
Real Estate Compliance Consultant Summer Goralik outlines best compliance practices when a real estate agent strays from their broker’s policies.
Errata & Updates
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.