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Practice and Disclosures, 25% of the examination

Steering

Directing prospective buyers toward or away from neighbourhoods based on a protected characteristic.

Steering includes factually accurate statements about who lives somewhere. The safe response to a question about whether an area suits a particular kind of family is to decline to characterise it and point the buyer at objective published sources they can evaluate themselves.

See also

BlockbustingInducing owners to sell by representing that people of a protected class are moving into the area.RedliningRefusing to lend, or to insure, in a geographic area because of the racial or ethnic composition of that area.

See it in a question

One question from Practice and Disclosures, so the term lands in the context the exam uses it in.

Practice and Disclosures ยท 25%Trust Account Management

A salesperson receives a $5,000 good-faith deposit check made payable to the seller. What must happen to it?

Written to DRE's published topic list. Not a real examination question, since reproducing those is a misdemeanour under B&P Code section 123.

Where this is tested

Practice of Real Estate and DisclosuresThe largest area by a wide margin, and the one most study plans leave until last. It is where trust accounts, fair housing, advertising, supervision, DRE discipline and every mandated disclosure live.25%Practise Practice and Disclosures50 questions on this area, every option explained.Practice

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