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Ch. 1 vocabulary
Agency Relationships
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Real Estate & Planning
Professional
06/03/2008

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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
Term
buyer's broker/agent
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. The actual person, within the buyer broker firm that procured the buyer.
Term
client
Definition
Person who employs an agent to perform a service on his/her behalf.
Term
customer
Definition
person who receives services given on behalf of and for the benefit of a client.
Term
listing broker/agent
Definition
the firm that the seller has employed under a listing contract; the agent within the employing firm who actually acquired the listing
Term
multiple representation relationship
Definition
between a broker and two or more of the broker's clients in which the clients are parties in the same transaction
Term
principal
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/agent
Definition
the firm which procured the buyer for a seller. The selling agent is the actual person, within the selling broker's firm who actually procured the buyer.
Term
single agency
Definition
practice of representing either the buyer or the seller but never both in the same transaction
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subagent
Definition
broker engaged by another broker to provide brokerage services in a transaction, but who is not the other broker's employee
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designated agency
Definition
a multiple representation relationship (both buyer and seller are clients of the broker) 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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