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Client-touch campaigns are ordinary practice in this business. A TREC rule and a 2020 CFPB guidance note between them decide how much of one a coordinator can run, and who is allowed to pay for it.
NAR's 2026 survey counts 67,100 purchases concentrated in Florida, California and Texas. The all-cash share is the figure that rewrites a coordinator's checklist, and the seller side carries a withholding rule most files never meet.
California publishes a checklist and a guide. Texas answers the question with 'it depends'. Florida has no single page at all, and the statute does the work instead.
C.A.R.'s programme runs to 17 hours or more, is open to licensed and unlicensed coordinators, and renews every two years. No national equivalent exists.
The Real Estate Bulletin posts in the middle of March, June, September and December. Winter 2026 is the current issue.
FinCEN's residential rule bites on all-cash entity and trust purchases of one to four units. The title company files the report. The coordinator is the one chasing seven days of identity documents, and the contract now says so.
Coordinators who handle rentals pick up a new habitability list, a default rule that returns deposits electronically, and a landlord duty to remediate after a disaster. Most of it took effect on 1 January 2026.
Altered listing photos now need a link to the original. Thirdhand smoke joins the disclosure family with its own cancellation right. The HOA balcony report becomes standard. And in fifteen fire-affected zip codes an attestation gets recorded with the deed.