I see it headed toward more specialization, toward exclusive buyer agency and
seller agency companies.
Not exact matches
A recent post in the Guardian suggests Canadian
companies that operate globally — in this particular case, e-book
seller Kobo — could be hurt by so - called anti-terror measures in the same way that National Security
Agency spying has negatively affected the interests of U.S. businesses abroad.
The weather may be getting cooler, but Hyundai is certainly feeling the heat after revealing that fuel economy estimates on a number of its top
sellers may have been a little too lofty... The news, which affects almost one million vehicles of Hyundai and sister division Kia, for model years 2011 to 2013, came after the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency was not able to validate the
company's fuel economy data.
It might be fortunate for Amazon that the Big 5 aren't in KU as the trad publishers have reverted to high pricing under the
agency model and the cash strain of paying out, for example, $ 7 per borrow on a best -
seller could be crippling even for a giant
company such as Amazon.
Acting for the
sellers of a digital
agency on the disposal to to one of the world's premier advertising and marketing services
companies
The Canada Revenue
Agency's decision to audit the eBay
sellers follows a series of Federal Court decisions confirming the tax authority's ability to force eBay's Canadian
companies to disclose the names and other contact information of the Canadian PowerSellers.
Is not the request similar in principle to the one that the Canada Revenue
Agency made to eBay Canada for its records of power
sellers, which the Federal Court required eBay Canada to retrieve from servers outside Canada, because the Canadian
company had access to them for its own business purposes — i.e.
He can elect to be either a client or a customer (duty of care), but if you are going to show him one of your own listings, or one of your
company listings, you need to be cautious that he understands the full situation and has signed off on the document called Working With a REALTOR, and that if he wishes to proceed in client status, you will need to let your
seller know that, with his permission, you will be dealing in dual
agency, having explained this to the caller as well.
A majority work for independent, franchised
companies, 61 percent, and practice a buyer and
seller agency relationship with disclosed dual
agency.
While the federal
agencies have been silent on this point, several federal courts have opined that despite the economic disadvantage to the buyer of going to a title
company other than the
seller's preferred provider, the buyer is free to go elsewhere, and therefore the
seller's actions do not violate Section 9 of RESPA.
New policy prohibits relocation
companies from demanding a referral fee from a broker who already has obtained a signed
agency agreement with either a buyer or a
seller.
In a traditional real estate firm, when one agent represents a
seller and another real estate agent at the same
company represents a buyer that is purchasing (or offering on) the same home, this conflicted representation is called dual
agency.
If a firm declares that it is a designated
agency real estate
company, the law allows the firm to be the brokerage on both sides of the transaction, as long as there are different «designated» agents representing the buyer and the
seller.
In order to avoid having to disclose dual
agency conflicts and obtain written consent, many states, including Massachusetts and New Hampshire, allow real estate
companies to «designate» a real estate agent at the brokerage to represent the
seller and a different «designated» real estate agent at the same
company to represent a potential homebuyer.
You can get a home loan from several different sources — a credit union, commercial bank, mortgage
company, finance
company, government
agency, thrift (which includes savings banks and savings & loan associations), mortgage broker, and even the
seller.
Only an exclusive buyer agent, who works for a real estate
company that doesn't list properties for sale or represent
sellers, can guarantee that they will never practice dual
agency or designated buyer
agency.
In order to avoid having to disclose dual
agency conflicts and obtain written consent, many states, including Massachusetts and New Hampshire, allow real estate
companies to «designate» a real estate agent at the brokerage to represent the
seller and a different real estate agent at the same
company to represent a potential homebuyer in the same transaction.
If you have signed a dual
agency consent agreement prior to negotiations to purchase a property, you have compromised your agent's ability to do anything that would put the
seller listed with the same
company to any disadvantage.
The fact that the agent's
company may receive all of any commission paid by the
seller has nothing to do with establishing an
agency relationship with an un-represented buyer.
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