Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool| firsttuesday Journal
In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.| firsttuesday Journal
The California Buyer Purchasing Power Index (BPPI) tells us a homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 1.47% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago.| journal.firsttuesday.us
Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions| firsttuesday Journal
California's labor force participation rate — which includes both the employed and job-seeking unemployed — is a crucial indicator of overall job levels, providing the fundamental economic basis for all real estate activity.| firsttuesday Journal
The first in the series introducing the benefits available to mortgage-funded buyers when acquiring home ownership using a 20% cash down payment.| firsttuesday Journal
The first episode in our new five-part series depicts how a safety clause in an exclusive representation agreement establishes your right to a fee earned after the retainer period ends.| firsttuesday Journal
In August 2025, 24,000 escrows closed for new and resale residential transactions across California, 5.2% lower than the same month one year earlier.| firsttuesday Journal
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. To request a FARM letter topic, or to see a list of all our FARM letter templates, visit our FARM Letter page. Text only Pre-autumn home fixes As warm summer months come to an end, consider these quick — but important — home maintenance tasks to finish […]| firsttuesday Journal
Multi-family and SFR construction continue to lag behind demand for new housing.| firsttuesday Journal
Declining DFPI licensee numbers, and the fees they charge, means the remaining individuals need to pick up the slack — with their wallets.| firsttuesday Journal
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. To request a FARM letter topic, or to see a list of all our FARM letter templates, visit our FARM Letter page. Text only 7 property defects to fix before you sell Rid your home of critical defects and hazards to attract better buyers. Make your home […]| firsttuesday Journal
Over the last few decades, savings has followed a path conversely proportionate to consumer confidence.| firsttuesday Journal
Features, Real Estate| journal.firsttuesday.us
Agents and brokers who want to make a decent living in the leaner years ahead will prepare now for the return of real estate owned (REO) properties.| firsttuesday Journal
We answer your questions about MLO licenses.| firsttuesday Journal
The ideal cap rate for 2023 and beyond is higher than you think.| firsttuesday Journal
Learn how to persuade a seller-client to order out third-party reports on a property’s condition to enhance marketability, provide a marketing package to prospective buyers and work up effective marketing plans to sell a property when employed under a seller representation agreement.| journal.firsttuesday.us
Forecasts of economic conditions state-wide, and in California’s largest regions.| journal.firsttuesday.us
A robust jobs market under current conditions is a double-edged sword as the Fed continues to tackle inflation.| firsttuesday Journal
View the housing market's downturn as an opportunity to innovate, learn new skills and grow.| firsttuesday Journal
This form is used by a buyer's agent when preparing a purchase agreement offer or receiving a counteroffer and disclosing the financial requirements the buyer can anticipate, to prepare a worksheet for review with the buyer estimating the total costs of acquisition and amount and source of funds ne...| firsttuesday Journal
This form is used by agents as an attachment when preparing for client signature any representation/purchase/exchange/option agreement or counteroffer relating to any marketable interest in real estate, to inform consumers about agency relationships with brokers.| firsttuesday Journal
Access the entire library of over 400 RPI forms for your professional use – FREE. Once you download the form you need, you can fill out, personalize, save, print and email the prepared form. You need to open the forms with Adobe Reader to use all the extended features.| journal.firsttuesday.us
The second episode in our new buyer representation video series dramatizes the decades-long evolution of buyer representation in California.| firsttuesday Journal
The yield spread indicates the likelihood of a recession or recovery one year forward.| firsttuesday Journal
Read on for a summary of California property management laws and best practices.| firsttuesday Journal
This form is used by a commercial broker to be employed by entities as their sole agent, to locate and negotiate the terms and conditions to acquire a leasehold or fee interest in a property.| journal.firsttuesday.us
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.| firsttuesday Journal
Track the single most influential factor on California's real estate market: the number of people employed.| firsttuesday Journal
This form is used by a seller broker when entering into the employment of an owner of a property as their exclusive agent for a fixed period of time, to market the property for sale, locate a buyer and sell the property.| firsttuesday Journal
This form is used by a commercial broker to be employed by individuals as their sole agent, to locate and negotiate the terms and conditions to acquire a leasehold or fee interest in a property.| journal.firsttuesday.us
This form is used by a buyer broker when preparing an offer for their buyer-client to purchase an interest in one-to-four unit residential property....| firsttuesday Journal
Real estate agents: follow these tips to make sure your career survives the next recession.| journal.firsttuesday.us
Is a landlord liable for injuries to a motorist on an adjacent roadway caused by a tenant’s livestock known to the landlord to be fenced in on the property?| firsttuesday Journal
Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.| journal.firsttuesday.us
Watch the first episode in our new video series depicting the seismic shift in the representation of buyers in 2025, cementing long-standing public policy.| journal.firsttuesday.us
What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?| firsttuesday Journal
Different buyer representation retainer period and extension rules apply when the buyer-client is an individual versus an entity. Watch the critical distinctions in our latest video.| journal.firsttuesday.us
The third episode in our new buyer representation video series covers the legislative introduction of the buyer representation agreement.| journal.firsttuesday.us
Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.| journal.firsttuesday.us
