December 2025 Form Updates
- jefwassom
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 21 hours ago
What Agents and Clients Need to Know
It’s that season again. New year, new form revisions. While many of the updates are minor—small wording adjustments, reorganized paragraphs, and tweaks to lesser-used documents—there are several notable changes every real estate professional and client should be aware of.
Below is a clear breakdown of the key updates across the most commonly used forms.
Here is a Quick Summary of All revisions and below are links for changes to make note of:
• The form now clearly reinforces the 90-day maximum term of the agreement, updates the language regarding cancellation, and defines the continuation period.
• It also references situations where the new RAD form may be required. If the correct boxes are checked, the RAD form will be added for you automatically.
This new form serves as a transparency document. It is required when:
• You are being compensated by more than one party.
• You are paying or receiving any referral fee.• You have a personal interest in the transaction, such as property ownership or a family relationship.
When filling out a form and the correct box is checked and where this form is required, the form should automatically be added for you, so you don't forget to disclose and include.
A new provision now clarifies appliance expectations: a stove and refrigerator must be provided to the tenant unless the tenant has indicated they will provide their own.
Several organizational and compliance updates were made:
• The Fair Appraisal Act notice has moved from paragraph 29 to 8B(3).
• • A new paragraph, 11E, has been added to address the requirements of SB 832, which focuses on electrical system disclosures and the potential replacement of gas appliances. The requirement is to disclose and provide certain statutory language and buyer advisory whenever a TDS is required. To streamline this, the language has been placed directly into the RPA so it doesn’t need to be repeated in other forms or in other ways.
• The FRR (Federal Reporting Requirement) language, previously in a standalone form added mid-2025, now appears to be incorporated directly into paragraph 13D.
• Paragraphs 23 through 26 have been reorganized without substantive changes.
• Solar continues to evolve, and many of the previous questions created confusion or didn’t provide the clarity clients needed. In response to user feedback, recurring issues, and broader industry changes, the form has been reorganized into three distinct parts: an expanded client advisory, seller instructions, and the updated questionnaire.
• Due to new civil codes, new questions were added to the questionnaire to address upcoming requirements for gas-appliance replacement and disclosures related to smoke, residue, or odors from smoking or similar devices.
There are some jurisdictions not allowing the replacement of gas appliances, mostly on new builds. Hence the new addition to the disclosure.
Updated informational resources have been added, along with a reminder that buyers are responsible for obtaining fire-defensible compliance after close of escrow and the consequences that could arise should they not address the defensible space issues.
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