Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt I
This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers are given to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 12, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0
This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers are given to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Feb 11, 2025 | Laws and Regulations, Mortgages, New Laws, Real Estate | 0
An owner entitled to surplus funds remaining from the foreclosure sale of their residence are chased by individuals attempting to make claim on the surplus funds. Now these surplus fund chasers are barred from contacting the owners for 90 days after the trustee’s deed is recorded to better protect California homeowners in a vulnerable position.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 11, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Real Estate | 13
Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 10, 2025 | Real Estate | 3
Take a more active role in the discussion of real estate trends and practice on the firsttuesday...
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Feb 7, 2025 | Commercial, Economics, first tuesday Local, Inland Empire, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Market Watch, Orange County, Real Estate, San Diego | 0
Commercial vacancy rates rose after 2023 and continue to rise in Southern California. While increasing vacancies cut into rental income and leasing fees, the absorption rate is worsening and shifting the source of leasing fees. Regions with the highest vacancy rates see the most occupancy of vacant space.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 7, 2025 | Charts, Economics, Finance, Interest Rates, Market Watch, Real Estate | 26
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Feb 5, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Commercial, Forms, Investment, Real Estate | 1
A buyer broker uses RPI Form 151 when preparing an offer to purchase income-producing real estate, excluding one-to-four unit residential property.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 5, 2025 | Charts, Fundamentals, Home Sales | 1
In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Feb 4, 2025 | Appraisal, Real Estate | 0
An owner’s rights extend beyond the mere physical aspects of the land, airspace and improvements located within the described boundaries of the parcel.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 31, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0
Grab the buttered popcorn as we bring buyer representation to life as a sample transaction in the latest episode of the series.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Jan 24, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Features, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
The Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ is available to current and future firsttuesday students without charge. The Bonus Training contains everything brokers and agents need to operate successfully in the new paradigm — the buyer representation mandate in 2025 and beyond.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 24, 2025 | Charts, Home Sales, Market Watch, Real Estate | 107
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 23, 2025 | Bay Area, Charts, first tuesday Local, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara-Ventura, Mortgages, Real Estate, San Diego | 30
Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 21, 2025 | Economics, Finance, Real Estate, Tax | 0
Real estate agents negotiating a transaction advise clients on tax consequences
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 18, 2025 | FARM Letters, Marketing Flyers | 0
Use this firescaping firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Jan 18, 2025 | FARM Letters, Real Estate | 0
Use this fire hardened homes FARM letter in your marketing.
Read Moreby Lily Hart | Jan 16, 2025 | Laws and Regulations, New Laws, Real Estate | 0
California’s legislature promotes solar energy by empowering owners and tenants of mobilehomes to freely install and use solar energy systems without any type of interference from the owner or manager of the mobilehome park.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Jan 16, 2025 | Economics, Fundamentals, Real Estate | 1
California zoning laws which prohibit high-density infill development and instead incentivize horizontal expansion of suburbs increase the risk of loss to wildfires.
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