DRE Bulletin Digest: Spring 2025
The DRE’s Real Estate Bulletin informs licensees on rules of conduct, changing legislation and new licensing exams, which we digest to help you keep your practice and conversations current.
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Category: Feature Articles
Brokerage Services Performed in Anticipation of Earning a Fee
What are the conditions under which a seller broker earns the right to collect a fee from their seller-client under an exclusive seller representation agreement? Let us count the (many) ways.
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FHA delinquencies rising on pandemic forbearance arrangements
What are the consequences of delinquency in pandemic-era forbearance arrangements?
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The Entry of New Agents
Watch to anticipate the training agents need when entering the real estate profession.
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Hiring Newly-Minted Real Estate Agents in a Recession
Watch to discover the enhanced learning opportunities uniquely made available to licensees during a recession.
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BPO series: Deeds, covenants and agreements
Here is the fourth post in our series drawing on appraisal concepts from our unpublished...
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CLTA versus ALTA
Not all title insurance policies are created equal. Watch the final episode of our series for a detailed study of the California Land Title Association (CLTA) standard policy versus the American Land Title Association (ALTA) owner’s extended coverage policy.
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Contents of a Title Insurance Policy
Watch and read to get fully up to speed on the six operative sections of a title insurance policy.
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Title Insurance – a Form of Indemnity Insurance
What does a title insurance policy do – and not do? See the extent of a title insurance company’s obligation, if any, to indemnify the policy holder for money losses caused by an encumbrance on title.
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Wildfire protection is a statewide legislative concern for housing
Only when homes are no longer being built in wildfire zones will the wildfire risk fall to an acceptable level.
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Reading the legal tea leaves — the parallel need to conform tenant representation to new buyer representation rules for commercial transactions
The new buyer representation rules have an application which may surprise some brokers – the negotiated, written representation of commercial tenant clients.
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The Preliminary Title Report
The first episode in the new title insurance series introduces the critical role of title insurance in the California real estate market, and distinguishes preliminary title reports from abstracts of title.
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DRE Bulletin Digest: Fall/Winter 2024
The DRE’s Real Estate Bulletin keeps licensees informed on new codes and regulations significant to real estate practice, common violations of real estate rules of conduct, and real estate education opportunities.
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Counteroffer to a Purchase Agreement with a Fee Provision
A seller broker’s tortious interference with the fee arrangements between the buyer and the buyer broker is as imprudent as whacking a hornet’s nest.
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Now showing: Real Estate Principles: Video™ — a multimedia powerhouse for aspiring agents
Real estate licensing coursework has finally entered the 21st century. See what makes Real Estate Principles: Video™ so unique.
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Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt II
See how to use the Seller’s Net Sales Proceeds form and Buyer’s Acquisition Cost Sheet form to clearly present the financial consequences of a transaction to your seller or buyer.
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Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt I
This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers use to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.
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Putting the Representation Forms into Practice
Grab the buttered popcorn as we bring buyer representation to life as a sample transaction in the latest episode of the series.
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Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ brings firsttuesday students up to speed with 2025 buyer legislation
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.
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firsttuesday Fire Special: Disclosure of Fire Risks
How to disclose the existence of a fire hazard due to the geographic location of a property.
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