Resources—Real Estate

Real Property Law Section of the State Bar

http://www.calbar.org/
rpsection/index.htm

Home page.

ABA Real Property, Probate, and Trust section

http://www.abanet.org/rppt/
home.html

ABA Section of Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Home page with links, news, program materials, articles, and education resources.

Ginnie Mae

http://www.hud.gov/progdesc/
gnmaindx.html

Government National Mortgage Association home page.

Freddie Mac

http://www.freddiemac.com/

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation home page.

Fannie Mae

http://www.fanniemae.com

Fannie Mae home page with links to downloadable documents.

Appraisal Institute

http://www.appraisal
institute.org/

Appraisal institute home page containing information, links, and downloadable documents.

DIRT

http://www.umkc.edu/dirt

Home page for DIRT, the well-known real estate lawyers’ discussion group on the Internet. It is an unmoderated group that maintains a fairly serious dialogue on current practice issues. The home page contains archives of DIRT discussions, and links to articles, forms, and other relevant sites. DIRT has an extensive list of links to related sites at http://www.umkc.edu/
dirt/osites.htm

Real estate articles by John C. Murray

http://www.firstam.com/faf/
html/cust/jm-articles.html

Extensive collection of articles written by John C. Murray, vice president and special counsel for First American Title Insurance Company in Chicago. The articles cover a wide-ranging selection of topics in the real estate area.

Inman Real Estate News

http://www.inman.com/

Home page contains news and articles of interest to real estate professionals.

American College of Real Estate Lawyers

http://www.acrel.org/

This site includes a useful collection of links to real estate websites organized by topics such as "insurance" and "commercial real estate industry."

Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)

http://www.boma.org

This site contains updates about current federal legislation, and news and articles of interest to real estate professionals.

International Council of Shopping Centers

http://www.icsc.org

Many services on this site are available for non-members as well as members, such as articles of "Shopping Centers Today" magazine.

CA Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey

http://www.consrv.ca.gov/
cgs/index.htm

Features maps and information on seismic hazard zones, watershed areas, mineral hazards (e.g., asbestos).

Office of Real Estate Appraisers

http://www.orea.ca.gov

Home page with links to laws and regulations, licensing requirements. Also includes search engine for information on current and past licencees and for current licencees with disciplinary action.

California Department of Real Estate

http://www.dre.ca.gov

Home page with links for regulations and proposed changes, news, forms and licensing information. Also includes the DRE’s quarterly Real Estate Bulletin.

California Department of Consumer Affairs

http://www.dca.ca.gov/legal/
landlordbook/index.html

The Department of Consumer Affairs has posted on its site a copy of its booklet, California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants’ and Landlords’ Rights and Responsibilities. The booklet can be read online or downloaded in PDF format.

California Department of Fair Employment and Housing

http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/

Home page.

California Housing Law Project

http://www.housingadvocates.org

Home page of organization that provides California housing information services. The organization also advocates for tenants' rights and affordable housing in California. The site includes news, updates about California legislation and an extensive collection of federal, California and local links regarding housing.

Legal Services of Northern California

http://www.lsnc.net/

This site contains extensive links to fair housing resources. It also includes other housing related links.

National Housing Law Project

http://www.nhlp.org/

Home page of nonprofit national housing and legal advocacy center. This site includes updates, publicatons, and links regarding federally assisted housing.

National Fair Housing Advocate Online

http://www.fairhousing.com

This site includes news, HUD documents, links, and other recources regarding housing descrimination. The site also has a searchable database of awards and settlements in housing discrimination cases.

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

http://www.povertylaw.org

Home page. The Center has collected numerous links to recent news, articles, reports and cases in the areas encompassed by poverty law, including housing law and disability law.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Client Information and Policy System

http://www.hudclips.org/
cgi/index.cgi

Known as HUDCLIPS, this site is an excellent source for HUD policies, notices, handbooks, forms, and other materials in HUD’s official repository.

Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page - U.S. Department of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/

Information and technical assistance on the ADA.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

http://www.epa.gov/

EPA home page.

Journal of Real Estate Research

http://137.151.62.168/
finance/journal/

The official publication of the American Real Estate Society. Site offers full text of recent and past journal articles.

American Land Title Association

http://www.alta.org/

Home page of the American Land Title Association. Site contains financial and regulatory information, forms, government and industry news and legislative updates.

The Complete Real Estate Software Catalog^®

http://www.z-law.com/

This site bills itself as "the definitive directory of software… in real estate." It describes and sells software for many different kinds of real estate transactions.

Stewart Information Services Corporation

http://www.Stewart.com

Sponsored by Stewart Title Company, this site contains a mix of summaries and links to current news, state and federal legislation, forms, and other materials useful to real estate lawyers.

International Code Council (ICC)

http://www.iccsafe.org

Nonprofit organization established to develop national model construction codes. Website includes links to maps and charts of where international codes have been adopted.