Fundamentals | firsttuesday Journal

Market Comparison approach to value

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jan 5, 2026 | Appraisal, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Use a comparative market analysis (CMA) approach for setting the value of a subject property based on information collected on comps.

Due diligence demeanor in an agency

by Amy Platero | Dec 31, 2025 | Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn the due diligence effort a broker employed under an exclusive representation agreement owes their client-seller or buyer when acting on their behalf and implement the best effort conduct owed a client under a non-exclusive open representation.

California’s for-sale inventory growth: buyer caution rises faster than owner need to sell

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 24, 2025 | Charts, Fundamentals, Home Sales | 2

In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.

Letter to the Editor: Why are addendums from other publishers not published by Realty Publications, Inc.?

by ft Editorial Staff | Dec 18, 2025 | Fundamentals, Letters to the Editor, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

A provision in the purchase agreement achieves the same objective as a separate addendum with paragraphs of legal jargon. The difference: our forms are engineered simple.

Climate risk: the open secret MLS users won’t talk about

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 12, 2025 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Climate risk information hurt sales — so the MLS lobbied to take them down.

Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer

by Amy Platero | Dec 5, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

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.

Market condition analysis in a broker price opinion

by Carrie B. Reyes | Dec 2, 2025 | Appraisal, Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Agents preparing a BPO ignore price trends at their peril.

A house without character: The paradox of California’s geography

by Lily Hart | Nov 24, 2025 | Appraisal, Feature Articles, Fundamentals, Real Estate | 0

California has the largest disparity in price between new and resale homes, presenting a unique opportunity for buyer brokers able to access a builder’s inventory for their buyer-clients.

Down payment download: Now this is ownership

by Lily Hart | Nov 20, 2025 | Feature Articles, Fundamentals, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Competent brokers and agents educate buyer-clients on the acquisition process into down payment consequences, transaction costs and ownership expenditures.

Letter to the Editor: Why does firsttuesday report availability and ASAP delivery of the TDS by a seller broker?

by ft Editorial Staff | Nov 20, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Fundamentals, Letters to the Editor, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Recessions, Your Practice | 0

Delivery of property disclosures to buyers is legislated to occur “as soon as practicable” (ASAP) on inquiry from a prospective buyer, well before a purchase agreement setting a price is entered into.

Form-of-the-Week: Landlord and Seller Representation Agreement — Forms 106 and 102

by Amy Platero | Nov 19, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Property Management, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

A broker employed by a landlord to market the property to tenants, screen tenants and negotiate lease terms in exchange for a fee uses a Landlord Representation Agreement — the leasing equivalent of a Seller Representation Agreement.

Due-on clause exceptions and waivers

by Amy Platero | Nov 17, 2025 | Economics, Feature Articles, Finance, Fundamentals, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Video, Your Practice | 0

This article covers exceptions and waivers to the enforceability of the due-on clause present in all trust deeds and enforced on sales only during a cycle of rising long-term fixed rate mortgage rates.

DRE warns of email hackers committing wire fraud

by Carrie B. Reyes | Nov 12, 2025 | Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

DRE fraud alert underscores why you always need to check the wire transfer instructions.

A closer look at the due-on clause

by Amy Platero | Nov 7, 2025 | Economics, Feature Articles, Finance, Fundamentals, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Real Estate, Video, Your Practice | 0

This article covers an owner’s use of property rights which allows a mortgage holder to capitalize on the due-on clause to extract further profit by calling the mortgage due and payable, or waiving the call to modify the interest rate and payment schedule at current market rates.