So long as Felix does not share any of the buyers» confidential information with Hector, Hector is able to retain
his sole agency status and can continue to act as the designated agent of the seller.
The brokerage would not start out, as it does today, as the
sole agent for one of the parties, with every licensee engaged by the brokerage taking on the same
status, and then have to strip away many of its
agency obligations (and simultaneously stop being able to provide the
agency services it initially offered) to become an impartial dual agent in an «in - house» transaction.