Real Estate Disclosure

2026 was looking to be the year Southern California real estate came roaring back. The early data looked right. Then everything changed when the bomb dropped. Is it too late for the housing market to come back? Why did new listings drop in every single Southern California county this year? Which county is seeing the multifamily market post its highest pending sales despite higher mortgage rates? W...

You sold the property a year ago. The tenant's lawsuit just showed up anyway. I sat down with personal injury trial attorney Nick Kohan — who spent nearly a decade defending insurance companies before switching sides — to break down what every California property owner needs to know before someone gets hurt. This one isn't just for landlords... if a delivery driver slips on your steps, you have th...

The emergency rent rules that capped LA County rents for the past 17 months just expired... so can landlords finally raise rents and get back to normal? Not so fast. Christian Walsh sits down with Rafael Azizyan of California Property Law Group to break down what just changed, what's still in effect, and where landlords are marching into potentially six-figure mistakes... right now. Penal Code...

Notices of Default in LA County are up 166.8% year over year. What you’re not seeing is what 166.8% looks like next to the months when this county was filing over 1,800 Notices of Trustee Sale in a single month. This is the home of context and perspective and the home of the Southern California Foreclosure Report!✅ Why the 166.8% headline is accurate and incomplete at the same time?✅ Which South...

When SB 9 passed in 2022, we were one of the first channels to cover it! We released multiple videos, had dozens and dozens of conversations with California property owners sitting on large single family lots — and almost every single one hit the same wall. They couldn't find a civil engineer who actually knew how to navigate the process and would stand behind the results. Tonight we're fixing tha...

Most California property owners think they've handled their estate plan with shortcuts…and don’t need a trust. They've added a child (or two) to title, signed a quit claim, set up a Transfer on Death Deed, signed a will or relied on joint tenancy. It feels smart. It feels cheap. It also destroys generational wealth. In this episode of Real Estate Disclosure, estate planning attorney Kevin Snyder o...

✅ Where are SoCal sellers pulling back — and what does that mean for buyers right now? ✅ Which county is bucking the multifamily trend in a way nobody saw coming? ✅ Where are median home prices actually heading after a chaotic Q1? ✅ How do today's numbers compare to pre-COVID 2019 and the 2021 peak? ✅ Is April the turning point national experts are hoping for — or another head fake? Plus we h...

If you own rental property in California and you can't answer this with a real number based on where your property sits, you're flying blind on one of the biggest financial risks in your portfolio. How long does it actually take to evict a non-paying tenant in California right now? Six weeks? Six months? Longer? In this episode of Real Estate Disclosure, I sit down with Kenny Lim of California Pro...

Notices of Default in LA County are up 175% year over year. Across the SoCal region, they're up 82%.So is this 2008 again? Before the Crash Bros start screaming, one of the most respected foreclosure analysts in the country, Rick Sharga, sat down with me on Real Estate Disclosure last night and laid out exactly where foreclosure activity is concentrating. Spoiler: it's not where the headlines sugg...

There's a foreclosure wave forming in a specific corner of the country that almost nobody is talking about. If you own real estate, invest in real estate, or are even thinking about your next move — this episode of Real Estate Disclosure covers what the data actually says, not what the headlines are screaming. I sat down with Rick Sharga, founder and CEO of CJ Patrick Company, one of the most-cite...

Your tenant just spotted a code violation in their unit. Peeling paint. An unstrapped water heater. A bathroom fan venting into the attic. Something small. Something that's been there for years. Something you had no idea existed. Here's what's different in 2026... they take a photo, open ChatGPT or Gemini, and thirty seconds later they know exactly what the violation is, which code sec...

LA County just doubled the threshold for when you can start an eviction for nonpayment of rent. Most landlords don't know this yet. Some won't find out until they're already in trouble. Attorney Rafael Azizyan from California Property Law Group joins Christian Walsh live on Real Estate Disclosure to break down what changed, what's coming, and what California landlords need to do right now.✅ What...

If you own multifamily in Los Angeles — or you're planning to pass multifamily buildings to your kids — this video is for you. In January 2026, a Los Angeles multifamily property closed below what it sold for in 2016. Ten years of holding, improving, and rent increases. Zero gain. And it's not the only one. Why are LA multifamily values back at 2016 levels when every other market went up?...

Most landlords think they understand security deposits. Most are wrong — and one wrong move can cost you triple the deposit in court. This episode originally aired as a live webinar for the American Apartment Owners Association (one of their highest-rated sessions). We presented it to the Real Estate Disclosure audience, including deeper dives, edge cases, and real questions from real landlords.  ...

You've been reading the headlines. But the March data tells a different story. Every county. Every segment. The numbers are in — and a few of them will surprise you regardless of which direction you're leaning. How does seller confidence look for homes in every Southern California county? Why buyer demand didn't disappear — and what that tension means for pricing The condo and townhome...

You hired a listing agent. The photos look great. You assumed the hero image — the single most important photo in your entire listing — was chosen for a reason. It wasn't. It was a guess. ✅ What does peer-reviewed eye tracking research actually say about how long a buyer looks at your first listing photo?✅ We tested 4 professional photos on real buyers with real money — which one won, and why th...

You own rental properties. You've got an LLC. You've got insurance. You think you're protected. Nick Kohan spent nearly a decade working for insurance companies — learning exactly how to minimize payouts on injury claims. Then he switched sides. Now he's a founding partner at Kohan & Bablove Injury Attorneys in Newport Beach, and he uses everything he learned against them. In t...

As of March 1, 2026, there's a new federal rule that could derail your all-cash closing…and most sellers have never heard of it.  What is the FinCEN Residential Real Estate Rule and why does it exist?  Which properties and buyers are actually covered — and which ones are exempt?  Who is responsible for filing the report when an LLC or trust is buying?  What information gets reported — and does...

The land under your real estate portfolio might be worth more than the structures sitting on it. Most owners have no idea — and that gap in knowledge costs them. For this episode of Real Estate Disclosure, I sat down with Bryant Brislin, one of SoCal's most respected land brokers — 150+ transactions, $550M+ in deals — to break down what serious property owners need to understand before they ma...

Buyers were finally coming back. Mortgage rates dipped below 6% for the first time since late 2022. Pending sales were climbing. It was starting to look like a normal spring — and then the world changed. This is the last clean housing data before everything got complicated. February 2026, county by county, all the way back to 2018. In this Southern California Housing Market Report, we break down w...

Foreclosure starts are up 27% year over year, but is this a crisis…or just an attention-grabbing headline? In this Southern California Foreclosure Report, we break down the actual data: Notices of Default, Notices of Trustee Sale, REOs, and the one loan type that is increasingly becoming a serious problem heading into 2026.✅ Are Southern California foreclosures actually rising — or is the media o...

Most real estate investors know depreciation exists. Almost none of them are using it right in 2026.The One Big Beautiful Bill brought 100% bonus depreciation back — and if you own investment real estate and pay taxes, this conversation is for you. I sat down with tax strategist Greg Taylor (Taylor Tax Strategy, 49 states) and cost segregation expert David Wiener, aka Mr. Cash Flow, to break down...

Eviction law in California keeps evolving — and even the proposals that don't pass tell you something about where we're headed. In this first episode of Real Estate Disclosure, I'm joined by California Property Law Group's Kenny Lim to talk through what's actually changing in the courts right now, what nearly changed, and what it all signals for landlords — especially those with larger portfolios....