Tag: agency
“Klaatu Verata Niktor”
Before we read Osman’s piece on Buyer’s Agency, let’s do a little review.
Does the seller or the seller’s broker really pay the buyer agent’s commission? To suggest, as Osman does, that the buyer is getting a “free ride” (down the garden path), is too simplistic.
The day we envisioned that buyers would control their half of [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agency, blogging, Buyer-Information, interview
Comments: 3
History of Real Estate - Part 1
Robbie asks: “On a related thought, how did people buy & sell homes in the “dark ages”? That seems more mind boggling to me than anything I or the folks at Zillow are going to be doing in the next year.”
Ardell responds: The first ever “recorded” real estate transaction, involved a “life estate” (not to [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agency, MLS, real-estate-history
Comments: 2
Who Represents Whom?
Which of the two agents on a sale represents the buyer and which one represents the seller?
To date everyone has been ragging on the seller’s agents for what they are not doing for the buyer. The agent who enters the info into the mls is, by definition, the fiduciary representative of the seller, not [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agency, Buyer-Information, real-estate
Comments: 2
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