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Buyer's Agent - NO DUAL AGENCY


What is a Buyer's Agent?

According to NAR, National Association of Realtors:

A buyer brokerage or buyer agency is the practice of real estate brokers and their agents representing a buyer in a real estate transaction rather than, by default, representing the seller either directly or as a sub-agent. 

In the U.S., until the 1990s, buyers who worked with an agent of a real estate broker in finding a house were customers of the brokerage, since, by most common law of most states at the time, the broker represented only sellers. It is only since the early 1990s that states began to pass statutes to create buyers' agency.

Buyer agency can exist exclusively (where a brokerage firm chooses to only represent buyers and never sellers, as an exclusive buyer agent) or, in a full service company, by offering buyer agency to buyers who become clients. Buyers would have to agree to some form of dual agency in the event that they wished to buy a home which that company has listed for sale and for which it represents the seller.

Today, if the buyer is working with a broker other than the brokerage listing the property, he or she may choose to enter into a buyer-brokerage agreement to be represented. (In some cases where dual agency is permitted by law, even the listing broker may represent the buyer). If the buyer does not enter into this agreement, he/she remains a customer of the broker who is then the sub-agent of seller's broker.

At this point, a real estate brokerage owes the buyer the duties of:

  • Loyalty to the buyer by acting in the buyer's best interest.
  • Confidentiality by not disclosing facts that could influence the buyers ability to negotiate the best terms.
  • Disclosure to other parties in the transaction that the licensee has been engaged as a buyer's agent.
The broker negotiates price and terms on behalf of the buyers and prepares standard real estate purchase contract. The Buyer's Agent assist the buyer with evaluation and negotiation and advocate in the buyer's best interests without restriction.

The Exclusive Buyer's Agency (EBA) movement started in the late 1980s and, by the early 1990s as with the rise of buyer agency in general in U.S. states, firms came into being and a national trade association, the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA), was formed. According to NAEBA, EBA firms offer service to buyers in almost all 50 states.

Real estate firms in the United States can represent both buyers and sellers in the same transaction, and when representing both, derive profit from both the seller and buyer side of the transaction. 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 a single 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 clients with opposing interests simultaneously

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