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BPO series: Trust deeds, liens and the due-on clause

by ft Editorial Staff | Jun 5, 2025

Rational judgment by buyers and tenants is returning

The MLS environment

by Amy Platero | Jun 3, 2025

Review the historical and current practice of a buyer broker to earn and be paid their fee on a transaction when representing a buyer-client.

BPO series: Deeds, covenants and agreements

by ft Editorial Staff | May 8, 2025

Here is the fourth post in our series drawing on appraisal concepts from our unpublished easy-to-digest BPO course content. This series showcases the fundamental real estate knowledge needed by a DRE licensee to competently develop a Broker Price Opinion (BPO)...

Lessons from the Field: Incomplete TDS

by Amy Platero | Apr 22, 2025

An agent, retained by a seller of property, has a duty to have the seller-client enter their truthful responses to property conditions itemized on a Transfer Disclosure Statement (TDS).

The exclusive seller representation agreement

by Amy Platero | Apr 21, 2025

Learn why a seller representation agreement ensures the payment of a fee earned by the employment, how to prepare an exclusive seller representation agreement as the seller-client’s agent and explain the purpose of a seller representation agreement to a prospective seller-client.

A representation agreement employs a broker

by Amy Platero | Apr 11, 2025

Learn the difference between exclusive and open client representation agreements and understand the use of exclusive representation agreements as best practice for client representation.

Reading the legal tea leaves — the parallel need to conform tenant representation to new buyer representation rules for commercial transactions

by Carrie B. Reyes | Mar 31, 2025

The new buyer representation rules have an application which may surprise some brokers – the negotiated, written representation of commercial tenant clients.