The Texas Real Estate Commission in February adopted a change to the Consumer Protection Notice (TXR 2503, TREC CPN 1-4) to reflect that the regulation of residential service companies, also known as home warranty companies, is now hand...
The revised Consumer Protection Notice (CN 1-3; TXR 2503) took effect February 1. You can find the revised notice at trec.texas.gov/forms/consumer-protection-notice and texasrealestate.com/realtorforms. The revised notice informs consume...
The Texas Real Estate Commission in November approved changes to several forms. Among those was an amendment to the Consumer Protection Notice to alert consumers that inspectors are required to carry E&O insurance. If your website...
The Texas Real Estate Commission met on August 7 and adopted amendments to existing rules and proposed several more. View the meeting materials packet, which provides more details about all the changes, on TREC’s website. Here’s a br...
Fact or fiction? If you use your social media accounts for real estate business, the Texas Real Estate Commission requires you to have a link from those accounts to the Consumer Protection Notice and the Information About Brokerage Servi...
Fact or Fiction: If you use your social media accounts for real estate business, the Texas Real Estate Commission requires you to have a link from those accounts to the Consumer Protection Notice and the Information About Brokerage Ser...
Fact or fiction? If you use your social media accounts for real estate business, the Texas Real Estate Commission requires you to have a link from those accounts to the Consumer Protection Notice and the Information About Brokerage Serv...
The Texas Real Estate Commission met on November 13 and adopted amendments to existing rules and proposed others. In addition to the changes below, the commission made changes to how team names can be used in advertisements, tweaked rule...
As the 85th Texas Legislature comes to a close on May 29, several bills that will enhance protections for real estate consumers are taking the final steps of the legislative process. Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law TAR-suppo...
Learn about a recent court ruling that involves a land transaction, an agricultural lease-back, and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.