by Heather | Apr 19, 2022 | C.A.R., Legal
On April 27, C.A.R.’s Legislative Day will be live and in person in Sacramento for the first time since 2019. As housing continues to drives the cost of living in the state, a key focus of this year’s event will be lobbying state legislators to increase homeownership...
by Heather | Apr 12, 2022 | Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
The California Planning and Development Report (CP&DR) writes that Attorney General Rob Bonta has become increasingly aggressive on the planning housing front in the past two months, warning several cities for allegedly violating state housing law and calling one...
by Heather | Apr 11, 2022 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
The California Association of REALTORS® strongly OPPOSES Assembly Bill 1771, authored by Assemblymember Chris Ward, which attacks private property rights by imposing an unprecedented tax to property owners for simply deciding to sell their property resulting in...
by Heather | Apr 4, 2022 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR, TSMLS
BROKERS FACE WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY LAWSUITS ACROSS CALIFORNIA A rash of website accessibility lawsuits have been filed across the state with real estate brokerages named as the defendants. The legal claim underlying such suits is that a business’ website...
by Heather | Mar 17, 2022 | C.A.R., Legal
The last day for the Assembly and Senate to introduce bills was Feb. 18, 2022, in which we saw 2,140 bills introduced. C.A.R. has reviewed all bills for relevance to our concerns and we are following approximately 700 of them. Hundreds of bills were introduced the...
by Heather | Feb 2, 2022 | C.A.R., Legal, TSBOR
January 21st was the last day for committees to hear any bills introduced last year in that house. Here are some bills that C.A.R. is supporting or opposing that did make the deadline and which we will continue to be engaged in. AB 854 (Lee) Ellis Act- OPPOSE: forces...
