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Agency Relationships
WRA Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Real Estate & Planning
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10/14/2010

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Term
Agency
Definition
A relationship in which one person acts for or represents another
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Agent
Definition
A person who is authorized by another to act on his/her behalf
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Broker
Definition
One who for another person, and for commission, negotiates a saleor option to sell an interest or estate in real estate; who shows real estate or a business or its inventory
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Business Sale
Definition
The sale or lease of the business and good will of an existing business, enterprise, or opportunity, including a sale of the majority of assets or stocks of the business.
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Buyer's Agent
Definition
The actual person, within the buyer broker firm that procured the buyer.
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Buyer's Broker
Definition
The firm that has entered into a buyer agency agreement with the buyer indicating that the broker will be representing the interests of the buyer.
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Client
Definition
The person who employs an agent to perform a service on his/her behalf.
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Cooperating Broker
Definition
A broker, who works in conjunction with another broker in procuring a buyer for the seller's property.
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Customer
Definition
A person who recieves services given on pehalf of an for the benefit of a client.
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Designated Agency
Definition
A multiple representation relationship in which each client is receiving negotiation services from the agent of the broker but who are not providing negotiation services to any other client of the broker in the transaction
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Dual Compensation
Definition
Receiving compensation related to the realestate transaction from someone other than the licensee's client without prior written consent from all parties to the transaction
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Exchange
Definition
A way to defer capital gains tax by exchanging like property for like property.
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Fiduciary
Definition
One who is placed in a position of trust and confidence, normally responsible for the money and/or property of another.
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Licensee
Definition
A term used by the Wisconsin Department of Regulations and Licensing to refer to any person licensed or registered under state law to practice real estate.
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Listing Agent
Definition
The agent within the employing firm who actually acquired the listing.
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Listing Broker
Definition
The firm that the seller has employed under a listing contract.
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Material Adverse Fact
Definition
An adverse fact that a party indicates is of such significance, or that is generally recognized by a competent licensee as being of such significance to a reasonable party, that it affects the party's decision to enter into a contract or the terms of a contract.
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Multiple Representation
Definition
A realationship between a broker and two or more of the broker's clients in which the clients are parties in the same transaction
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Option to Purchase
Definition
An agreement to keep open, for a set period, and offer to sell or lease real property.
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Principal Broker
Definition
One who has permitted or directed another to act for his/her benefit and subject to his/her direction and control.
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Selling Broker
Definition
the firm which procured the buyer for a seller.
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Single Agency
Definition
The practice of representing either the buyer or the seller but never both in the same transaction.
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Subagent
Definition
A broker who is engaged by another broker to provide brokerage services in a transaction, but who is not the other broker's employee.
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