By Robert J. Enos, Senior Litigation Attorney On August 15, 2014, Governor Brown signed SB 1171 extending Agency Disclosure obligations to commercial property transactions. Existing California law (Civil Code Section 2079.13(k)) requires listing and selling agents in Residential transactions to provide the seller and buyer with a disclosure form that tells both seller and buyer […]
By Robert J. Enos, Senior Litigation Attorney In the coming weeks, the California State Assembly will be voting on Senate Bill 1171 (Hueso), which will extend to commercial transactions the disclosure requirements selling agents and brokers now have in residential transactions. Under existing law listing agents are required to provide the seller and buyer a […]
When selling a home in California, all Seller as well as their agents must make certain disclosures to prospective Buyers. The best known of these is the Transfer Disclosure Statement and the Seller Property Questionnaire. It is on these forms that Sellers disclose any adverse conditions on the property that might “materially affect it’s value” […]