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Investing: Stocks or real estate?
Where to park your cash? It depends on how long you’re going to park it for – and what types of risks you’re willing to take.
The new Implicit Bias and expanded Fair Housing course are available for your 2023 California real estate license renewal
Newly-required course content is now available for you to renew your California real estate license.
DRE Hot Seat: Broker frauds his landlord client and tenant
This article is part of an ongoing series covering violations of real estate law. Here, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) revoked the California real estate license of a broker acting as a property manager who charged the tenant a greater amount than was paid to the landlord.
Climbing mortgage rates pushed sales volume down — and now property prices; Monthly Statistical Update (October 2022)
Home sales volume deflates on buyer exhaustion; The cyclical home price decay has begun; Mortgage rates resume their upward march
How agents are finding clients in 2022 — and how that’s all about to change
During a recession, agents need to shift marketing strategies to focus on securing buyers.
MLO Mentor: timeliness of disclosures
This article details disclosure timelines for the Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosures.
Letter to the editor: Does the DRE “accredit” schools?
The California Department of Real Estate (DRE) does not “accredit” schools. The DRE approves courses submitted by course providers.
DRE Bulletin Digest: Summer 2022
The Summer 2022 edition of the California Department of Real Estate (DRE) Real Estate Bulletin focuses on continuing education updates, a statewide housing plan, and the California Mortgage Relief Program, among other topics.
Errata & Updates
- 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