Feature Articles | firsttuesday Journal

Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt I

by ft Editorial Staff | Feb 12, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers use to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.

Putting the Representation Forms into Practice

by 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.

Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ brings firsttuesday students up to speed with 2025 buyer legislation

by 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.

firsttuesday Fire Special: Disclosure of Fire Risks

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 13, 2025 | Feature Articles, Features, Real Estate, Video | 0

How to disclose the existence of a fire hazard due to the geographic location of a property.

Buyer Representation Agreement Retainer Periods

by ft Editorial Staff | Jan 6, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

Different buyer representation retainer period and extension rules apply when the buyer-client is an individual versus an entity. Watch the critical distinctions in our latest video.

Introducing the Buyer Representation Agreement

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 19, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 2

The third episode in our new buyer representation video series covers the legislative introduction of the buyer representation agreement.

An Industry-Wide MLS Subagency Misnomer

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 5, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The second episode in our new buyer representation video series dramatizes the decades-long evolution of buyer representation in California.

Price Fixing and Association Membership

by ft Editorial Staff | Nov 21, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

Watch the first episode in our new video series depicting the seismic shift in the representation of buyers in 2025, cementing long-standing public policy.

Mechanics of the Homestead Exemption

by ft Editorial Staff | Nov 6, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The final episode of our new video series illustrates the specific mechanics of automatic and recorded homesteads.

Disclosure of a Prior Occupant’s Affliction and Death: firsttuesday Halloween Special

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 22, 2024 | Feature Articles, Features, Real Estate, Video | 0

Grab your buttered popcorn for the two-part firsttuesday Halloween Special covering the disclosure of a death on a property. You’ll scream — you’ll laugh — you’ll learn!

Automatic and Declared Homesteads

by ft Editorial Staff | Oct 11, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

This is the second episode of our new video series covering homestead protections – help owners distinguish between the benefits afforded under an automatic homestead or a recorded declaration of homestead.

The Owner’s Homestead Interest in Title

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 30, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

This is the first episode of our new video series covering how to advise a homeowner on whether they qualify to voluntarily sell and protect the equity in their residence from creditor seizure.

Buyer Representation Agreements: The end of the “gold standard”

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 25, 2024 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Forms, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, New Laws, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

With new California legislation, it’s now mandatory practice for a buyers broker to enter into an employment agreement with buyer clients before a purchase agreement is submitted.

Controlling the Vesting of One-Half

by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 30, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

This is the final episode of our video series covering the right of survivorship among co-owners, and how a right-of-survivorship vesting is severed.

Clear Title on Death by Affidavit

by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 23, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The seventh episode in our new video series covers how a deceased joint tenant’s interest in a property is cleared from title before the surviving joint tenant(s) sells, leases or encumbers the property as the sole owner.

Severing Right-of-Survivorship Vestings

by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 8, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The sixth episode in our new video series covers how a co-owner vested as a joint tenant or as community property with the right of survivorship unilaterally severs the right of survivorship.

Conveying Community Property

by ft Editorial Staff | Jul 17, 2024 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Video | 0

The fifth episode of our new video series covers the community property presumption for property acquired jointly by a married couple during the marriage.