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In a dual agency situation, the same real estate agent represents both the buyer and the seller of a home. This arrangement can be risky for buyers, since agents are paid based on how much the ...
By Matt Carter and Andrea V. Brambila Republished with permission from Inman News. Homebuyers sometimes gripe that their real estate agent seems more interested in closing a sale and collecting a ...
Kilgore estimated that the number of agents could decrease as much as 50% as a result of the NAR settlement, with the remaining agents likely to be "more professional, more efficient agents."
While some states have, at the insistence of Realtor trade groups, created various forms of dual agency to allow one company and in some cases an individual agent to represent both sides, other states have continued to hold such practices as illegal. In the opinion of EBAs, it is not possible to faithfully represent the best interests of ...
The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, who is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party. [1]
Consequently, the principal cannot exploit ignorance to their advantage by instructing the agent to withhold key information or by appointing an agent known to be secretive. This rule in favour of imputation relates to the duties an agent owes a principal, in particular the agent's duty to communicate material facts to the principal.
The principal–agent problem typically arises where the two parties have different interests and asymmetric information (the agent having more information), such that the principal cannot directly ensure that the agent is always acting in the principal's best interest, particularly when activities that are useful to the principal are costly to ...
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