agents and brokers | firsttuesday Journal

The Entry of New Agents

by ft Editorial Staff | May 21, 2025 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Recessions, Video | 0

Watch to anticipate the training agents need when entering the real estate profession.

Confronting the illegal practice of price-fixing fees in 2025 — California style

by Amy Platero | May 10, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Real Estate | 0

How does a buyer broker or agent conduct discussions with a seller broker without falling back into consumer-unfriendly methods for representation and fee-setting?

The agency law disclosure

by Amy Platero | Mar 28, 2025 | Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 3

Learn when the statutorily-mandated Agency Law Disclosure is required.

Letter to the Editor: What happens to buyer representation agreements and fees when an agent changes brokers?

by ft Editorial Staff | Mar 20, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Letters to the Editor, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

A buyer representation agreement runs with the broker, not the agent.

An agent’s perception of riches

by Amy Platero | Feb 10, 2025 | Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn to estimate the potential income, expenses and initial investment you experience as a newly licensed agent employed by a broker and how to evaluate competing broker firms for suitability with your professional goals and expectations.

Broker activities: by the agent of the agent

by Amy Platero | Jan 29, 2025 | Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn how brokers oversee agents, the office policies a broker puts in place to comply with their duties owed to clients and the Department of Real Estate (DRE), and how licensee status relates to labor regulations, taxation and issues of liability.

May an agent employed as an independent contractor (IC), when also employed as a sales manager for a broker, avoid the exclusion of their IC agent activities from Labor Code protections?

by David Swistock | Jul 19, 2023 | Laws and Regulations, Real Estate, Recent Case Decisions | 0

Whitlach v. Premier Valley, Inc.

Agents and brokers: recession-proof your life

by Carrie B. Reyes | Oct 20, 2022 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Recessions, Your Practice | 1

View the housing market’s downturn as an opportunity to innovate, learn new skills and grow.

POLL: How do you rate the ethical standards of SFR agents?

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 24, 2022 | Reader Polls, Real Estate | 0

The weekly poll is here to ask your thoughts on ethical standards.

Brokerage Reminder: Agents beware – 5 signs of a difficult client

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 11, 2022 | Brokerage Reminder, Real Estate | 2

Here are the five types of clients all agents need to be vigilant about before conducting business.

POLL: Where do you see class bias in the real estate brokerage business?

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 10, 2022 | Reader Polls, Real Estate | 0

This week’s poll surveys readers of bias they see in the real estate field.

Real estate fees projected to break $100 billion in 2021

by Amy Platero | Aug 9, 2021 | Economics, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Real estate brokers and agents earned a substantial pay raise in 2021.

Letter to the Editor: How do I report the death of a licensee to the DRE?

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 24, 2021 | Letters to the Editor, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

To report the death of a licensee, a broker submits to the DRE a Salesperson Change Application, a death certificate or signed statement declaring the date of the death and a cover letter.

Word-of-the-Week: Agency Law Disclosure

by Emily Kordys | Nov 9, 2020 | Real Estate, Video | 0

Agency Law Disclosure – Restatement of agency codes and case law on agency relationships of licensees acting on behalf of one or more persons in a real estate transaction.