Buyer brokerage Totally Explained

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Buyer brokerage (or Buyer agency as it's also known) is the practice of real estate brokers (and their agents) in the United States and Canada representing a buyer in a real estate transaction rather than, by default, representing the seller either directly or as a sub-agent. In the United Kingdom the most common term to describe agent is Buying agent.
   In most US states and Canadian provinces, 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 passed statute law 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 which "lists" the property, he 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 doesn't enter into this agreement, he/she remains as a customer of the broker who is then the sub-agent of seller's broker.

Buyers as clients

With the increase in the practice of Buyer Agency in the US, especially since the late 1990s in most states, agents (acting under their brokers) have been able to represent buyers in the transaction with a written "Buyer Agency Agreement" not unlike the "Listing Agreement" between brokers and sellers (often referred to as seller agency). The real estate licensee, upon entering into a written agreement with a Buyer, agrees to work solely for the buyer, and, in return, the buyer agrees to exclusive representation.
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 by filling in the blanks in the contract form. The buyer's agent acts as a fiduciary for the buyer

Buyer Agency Agreements

Like the listing agreement with sellers, the Agreements with buyers must have a starting and ending date as well as specifying how the buyer's broker is to be paid (by the seller or by the buyer himself). In addition, it should spell out the duties and obligations of all parties.

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