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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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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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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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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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 information hurt sales — so the MLS lobbied to take them down.
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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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Agents preparing a BPO ignore price trends at their peril.
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Competent brokers and agents educate buyer-clients on the acquisition process into down payment consequences, transaction costs and ownership expenditures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DRE fraud alert underscores why you always need to check the wire transfer instructions.
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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.
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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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Antitrust behavior in real estate is back in the news. This time, commercial real estate site CoStar is getting the antitrust treatment.
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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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This multimedia article explains when due-on clauses become used in the economic cycle and under which sale and leasing arrangements.
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Use first tuesday’s Buy Versus Rent Comparison Analysis to show first-time buyers how ownership creates savings and equity buildup that renting does not.
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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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