Learn how a buyer agent uses a home inspection report (HIR) to confirm the condition of a property as disclosed by a seller or seller agent and advises their buyer on remedies for material defects in the property noted in an HIR but not disclosed prior to the seller entering into a purchase agreement.
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Learn to explain to your buyer and tenant clients the provisions contained within the buyer representation agreement and tenant representation agreement.
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Learn when to enter into a buyer representation agreement with a buyer-client and distinguish between representing individual and entity clients and the forms and retainer periods used for each.
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Our latest and greatest 45-hr renewal course ups the theatrical flair with actor-packed scenarios, humor and California-specific concepts.
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Follow the steps of a buyer agent from representation agreement to closing on a buyer’s acquisition of property and recognize a buyer’s breach of the purchase agreement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Laws for consumer representation by DRE brokers need consistency. Litigation will pull in the courts to definitively establish the conduct required of tenant brokers to earn and collect a fee. In the meantime, brokers need to do everything in their power to protect the fee they and their agents expect to earn.
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See how the use of a written tenant representation agreement by the tenant broker assures collection of a fee whether the user acquires a fee or leasehold interest in a property — the tenant representation agreement covers the broker in both circumstances.
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2025 legislation requires a buyer agent to enter into a written representation agreement with their buyer seeking to acquire a fee interest in real estate. But is a commercial tenant’s acquisition of a leasehold interest also targeted? This three-part series is engineered to fully address every facet of this question commonly asked by our readers and students.
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Learn to conduct a transaction as a buyer agent when a seller breaches the purchase agreement with a buyer, discuss remedies available to the buyer and review money losses the buyer may recover on a seller’s breach.
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Learn to appreciate a safety clause provision in exclusive representation agreements as assurance a fee is earned after expiration when your client sells or buys due to your efforts during the employment.
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Learn to protect your broker’s right to collect a fee when a seller-client removes their property from the market or cancels the representation agreement.
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Retain a client and earn a fee as an exclusive agent whether the client acquires a leasehold or fee interest.
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Learn the obligations of a seller and their broker under an exclusive seller representation agreement and whether a buyer is ready, willing and able to buy when submitting an offer to purchase.
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Review the historical and current practice of a buyer broker to earn and be paid their fee on a transaction when representing a buyer-client.
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A landlord and tenant may agree to grant the tenant a right of first refusal in an addendum to the lease agreement using RPI Form 579.
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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?
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The tenant representation agreement employing a broker to acquire a leasehold interest in a property is the leasing equivalent to the buyer representation agreement to acquire a fee interest.
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