Real Estate | firsttuesday Journal

FARM: Sellers of tax defaulted property

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 9, 2025 | FARM Letters, Real Estate | 0

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Tax bracket updates for 2026

by Carrie B. Reyes | Oct 9, 2025 | Finance, Real Estate, Tax | 0

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced new tax rates and standard deductions for 2026.

FARM: Selling your home quickly in a divorce

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 9, 2025 | FARM Letters, Marketing Flyers, Real Estate | 0

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Tax aspects advice

by Amy Platero | Oct 9, 2025 | Finance, Fundamentals, Investment, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Tax, Your Practice | 0

This article explains how to offer tax advice when appropriate, increasing an agent’s marketability by widening the range of services and advice offered to clients.

The downward trend shaping California home sales volume

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 9, 2025 | Charts, Home Sales | 0

Home sales volume continues to decline in 2019.

Safety Clause vs. Procuring Cause

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 8, 2025 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The second episode of our new series presents a separate safety clause scenario contrasted against the procuring cause theory used to limit an earned fee to completing a transaction.

Boomers retire and California reinvents their housing, again

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 8, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Real Estate | 12

Retiring Baby Boomers shift California’s future direction of real estate ownership.

30 years of summer, followed by 30 years of winter

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 7, 2025 | Charts, Interest Rates, Real Estate | 5

Mortgage rates are on their way up.

Buyer Purchasing Power Index flattens in Q3 2025

by Carrie B. Reyes | Oct 6, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate | 0

The California Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) tells us a homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 1.47% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago.

Real Estate Runs with the Labor Force Participation (LFP) Rate

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 3, 2025 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

California’s labor force participation rate — which includes both the employed and job-seeking unemployed — is a crucial indicator of overall job levels, providing the fundamental economic basis for all real estate activity.

Trending mortgage rates

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 3, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate | 20

Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.

California tiered home pricing

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 30, 2025 | Bay Area, Charts, first tuesday Local, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate, San Diego | 31

Home prices continued to decline across California in July 2025.

A Fee Earned After the Retainer Period Ends

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 29, 2025 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video, Your Practice | 0

The first episode in our new five-part series depicts how a safety clause in an exclusive representation agreement establishes your right to a fee earned after the retainer period ends.