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• $900B Stimulus Package Provides Meaningful Relief
• Bill Clarkson Ends 4th Term as San Ramon Mayor
• CA DRE Extends Closure of all Testing Sites
• Sexual Harassment Training Deadline Jan 1st
• Cloud Agent Suite: Free until Feb 2021
• Prop. 19 Clarification Coming Soon
• REALTOR® Activity Subject to New Ethics Standards
• Thursday, December 24th
• Friday, December 25th
• Thursday, December 31st
• Friday, January 1st
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Feb. 23 – 24, 2021
Disclosures.io: The Full Feature Breakdown
Wed., Dec. 23 | 12 – 12:30pm
Introduction to RPR®
Mon., Dec. 28 | 1 – 3pm
Auto-Notifications using Collaboration Center
Tue., Dec. 29 | 9 – 11am
Glide: the Best Way to do Disclosures
Mon., Jan. 4 | 11am – 12pm
Intro to CMA Reports using Cloud CMA
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Introduction to Paragon
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• MLS Rule Changes – December 28, 2020
• MLS in the Know
• MLS Rule Change 11.13 Effective Immediately
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$900B Stimulus Package Provides Meaningful Relief to REALTORS® including Unemployment and PPP
NAR and C.A.R. continue to work behind the scenes at the State and National levels to ensure that REALTORS® are covered under new COVID-19 relief legislation. Included in the new stimulus package are paycheck protection checks and unemployment benefits. The National eviction moratorium has been extended to Jan 31, 2021, but landlords may apply for rental assistance funds to recover losses…
Bill Clarkson Completes 4th Term as San Ramon Mayor
CCAR congratulates REALTOR® Bill Clarkson (member since 1988) who just wrapped up his fourth term as San Ramon Mayor, marking a decades-long tradition of service to the City. Bill’s non-partisan approach to local government has paid valuable dividends to locals who enjoy living in an award-winning city with countless amenities and services including…
CA DRE Reopening Exam Centers
After a seven-week shutdown, the California Department of Real Estate (DRE) is poised to reopen its exam centers. Governor Gavin Newsom lifted the remaining parts of a stay-at-home order on Monday, January 25, 2021, clearing the way for exam centers to reopen. DRE will reopen four of the exam centers (Sacramento, Fresno, La Palma, and San Diego) on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. The Oakland exam center will reopen…
Complete Sexual Harassment Prevention Training by Jan 1st — It’s the Law!
Deadline for training is right around the corner! California Association of REALTORS® online course for supervisors and employees meets all state requirements. These are non-credit courses (not for license renewal). Courses are compliant with CA Senate Bill 292…
Cloud Agent Suite: Free until Feb. 2021
As part of your CCAR member benefits, you already get free access to the award winning Cloud Agent Suite tools – Cloud CMA, Cloud Streams, and Cloud MLX. But to make sure you close out your year with a bang, the Cloud Agent Suite team has given all CCAR members an even better deal. You can try the rest of the Cloud Agent Suite completely FREE until February 2021…
Proposition 19 Clarification Coming Soon
With the passage of Prop 19 a homeowner who is over 55 years of age, severely disabled or whose home has been substantially damaged by wildfire or natural disaster may transfer the taxable value of their primary residence to a replacement primary residence anywhere in the state…
All REALTOR® Activity Subject to New Ethics Standards
Code of Ethics amended to expand applicability to all REALTOR® activities on and off ‘the field’. No matter the setting–business or private–REALTORS® must uphold NAR Code of Ethics; newly added Standard of Practice 10-5 also expands Duties to the Public to prohibit all discriminatory, harassing, hate speech…
MLS UPDATE:
MLS Rule Changes – Dec 28th
Changes to MLS Rules and Regulation 7.5 Mandatory Submission and 7.6 Exempted Listings will go into effect December 28th. These changes will allow an “Active – Coming Soon” listing to meet the requirements of Mandatory Submission and provide clarity for agents when explaining Clear Cooperation to sellers…
MLS Rule Change 11.13 Enables Portability of Listing Data
CCAR’s MLS Rules & Regulations have been revised to adopt NAR’s new mandatory Participant Data Access Policy, requiring the MLS to provide MLS Participants access and entitlement to a data feed containing their own listing information. Such a policy enables portability of listing data for brokers…
Floor Plans Subject to Copyright + Ad Restrictions
Floorplans posted with MLS listings are subject to copyright restrictions and truth in advertising guidelines. Adding floorplans to listing data has become popular among MLS Participants and Subscribers. But before you post, make sure they are accurate and that you get adequate permissions to copy and publish…