In early 2026, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
California’s for-sale inventory growth: buyer caution rising faster than owner need to sell
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Real Estate Principles
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Recent updates to the course e-book
- Effective January 1st, 2021, California homeowners qualify for a net equity homestead protection of up to $300,000 or the median sale price for a single family residence (SFR) in the homeowner’s county in the calendar year prior to the year in which they claim the exemption, not to exceed $600,000 (adjusted annually for inflation). [CCP §704.730] For more on this topic, see Form-of-the-Week: Homestead exemption, an asset preservation declaration – Form 465
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
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California tiered home pricing
Home prices continued to slide across California in November 2025.
Bankruptcy’s tie to homeownership
Bankruptcy numbers were artificially low in 2020-2021. Prepare for today’s zombie businesses to fold as the economy stalls.
Natural hazard disclosures by the seller agent
Learn the various types of natural hazards which sellers disclose to buyers, how to comply with seller disclosures of natural hazards and mitigate agent liability by using a natural hazard expert to investigate the public record for known hazards unknown to the agent.
California residential construction starts
Multi-family and SFR construction continue to lag behind demand for new housing.
California home sales volume
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
Marketing condominium units
Learn the use restrictions and operating conditions placed on conduct in HOA communities, the obligations and assessments imposed on an owner of a unit in a CID and how a seller agent requests CID documents concerning use restrictions and HOA finances from the HOA for delivery to prospective buyers when marketing a CID unit for sale.
