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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.
Newly published related content
A closer look at the due-on clause
This article covers an owner’s use of property rights which allows a mortgage holder to capitalize on the due-on clause to extract further profit by calling the mortgage due and payable, or waiving the call to modify the interest rate and payment schedule at current market rates.
Acceptance of an offer
Learn when a binding agreement to buy and sell real estate is formed and how to assist clients by preparing and submitting or responding to an offer to buy real estate.
Commercial real estate listing site under fire for antitrust dealings
Antitrust behavior in real estate is back in the news. This time, commercial real estate site CoStar is getting the antitrust treatment.
Renting and owning by county
Homeownership and rental vacancy rates decline across California. Are rentals the future of real estate?
Avoid preferential price fixing with seller broker
This article presents the appropriate reaction to a seller broker’s attempt to simultaneously fee-fix and unlawfully induce a buyer broker to violate California’s buyer representation agreement law.
(Re)introducing the due-on clause
This multimedia article explains when due-on clauses become used in the economic cycle and under which sale and leasing arrangements.
FARM: Buy versus rent comparison analysis
Use first tuesday’s Buy Versus Rent Comparison Analysis to show first-time buyers how ownership creates savings and equity buildup that renting does not.
An agreement starts as an offer
Learn the contract elements comprising an enforceable agreement and how to manage the submission of an offer for the sale, lease or exchange of real estate.