Duties owed by designated officers
Learn how an individual becomes a designated officer of a DRE-licensed corporation and provides supervision and oversight of all its employees for compliance with real estate law.
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Category: Your Practice
Home sales volume impacts sales agent licensing and renewals
View California sales agent trends from 2002-present, and examine the effect of home sales volume on licensing.
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Referral fees to transaction agents from third-party providers prohibited
Learn to identify impermissible fees for your referral of a transaction participant to a third-party provider as a duplicate charge and a prohibited kickback and establish broker-owned services and refer clients to use them to capture legally entitled profit from transactional services otherwise received by third-party providers.
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Condition of property: the owner’s disclosures for symmetric information
Learn the seller broker duty to inspect and disclose their observations and knowledge about a property’s condition to prospective buyers, preparation and delivery of the seller’s Transfer Disclosure Statement (TDS) and recognize the home inspection report (HIR) as a risk mitigation activity.
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DRE offers tips and caution for AI usage in real estate
The DRE cautions that responsibility for AI-generated content ultimately rests with the broker.
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Analyzing the buyer representation agreement
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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Form-of-the-Week: Designated Officer Employment Agreement, and Real Estate Team Agreement — Forms 511 and 512
A corporate broker uses RPI Form 511 to establish a corporate broker-officer’s duties and fee schedule for earnings as designated officer of the real estate corporation and licensees held under the same broker use RPI Form 512 to form a real estate team and establish each team member’s responsibilities and fee sharing.
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Buyer representation
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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Newly-licensed sales agent and broker population
This article examines the number of broker and sales agent licenses issued by the DRE from 1998-present, with forecasts about future licensing trends.
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Video Renewal Course: Real Estate Matters™ — the 2026 cinematic CE release for your DRE renewal
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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The power of many: Building and operating a real estate team in California
Learn the rules and strategies behind real estate teams in California.
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Form-of-the-Week: Modification of Representation Agreement and Release and Cancellation of Employment Agreement — Forms 120 and 121
After entering into a representation agreement with a client, an agent uses the Modification of Representation Agreement to change the terms of the employment without canceling it and to terminate the authorization to represent, an agent uses the Release and Cancellation of Representation Agreement.
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DRE Bulletin Digest: Fall 2025
The Fall 2025 Real Estate Bulletin examines statistics from the California Department of Real Estate’s last fiscal year regarding their activities.
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Market Comparison approach to value
Use a comparative market analysis (CMA) approach for setting the value of a subject property based on information collected on comps.
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Due diligence demeanor in an agency
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.
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Letter to the Editor: Why are addendums from other publishers not published by Realty Publications, Inc.?
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.
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Climate risk: the open secret MLS users won’t talk about
Climate risk information hurt sales — so the MLS lobbied to take them down.
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Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer
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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Market condition analysis in a broker price opinion
Agents preparing a BPO ignore price trends at their peril.
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Down payment download: Now this is ownership
Competent brokers and agents educate buyer-clients on the acquisition process into down payment consequences, transaction costs and ownership expenditures.
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