Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions
Real estate runs with the labor force participation 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.
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06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
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Due Diligence is an Art Form
The due diligence effort required under an exclusive representation comprises an orchestration of a basket of brokerage activities. Let’s unpack the basket.
The safety clause for residuals from due diligence efforts
Learn to appreciate a safety clause provision in exclusive representation agreements as assurance a fee is earned after expiration when your client sells or buys due to your efforts during the employment.
Will first-time homebuyers save California’s homeownership rate?
California’s homeownership rate dropped even as the typical age of first-time homebuyers rose.
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.
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.