History of the Buyers Broker: The concept of Buyers Broker is a comparatively new one in the ambit of the real estate industry. Prior to the advancement and boom in the real estate sectors, there was as such nothing distinct called Buyers Broker. In fact the sales agents who worked as intermediary between the sellers and buyers of the real estate, in the countries were called Buyers Broker, synonymously. However the change or so called metamorphosis had seen into the industry, only after the 1990s. A close study of the growth of the real estate sector will reveal that, in most of the US states and Canadian provinces, there were a set of new laws or statutes that made it mandatory for the Buyers Broker to be an integral part of the transaction. It can be seen that, until the 1990s, buyers who worked in close collation with an agent of a real estate broker, mostly in finding a house were customers of the brokerage. Thereby Buyers Broker was nothing more than just petty sellers. However with changes in law, the Buyers Broker made the buyers' agency, which compulsorily does all transactions related to property. Today, if the buyer is working with a broker without the existence of a brokerage, which keeps a list of the property, he may choose to enter into a buyer-brokerage agreement in order to be represented. In case the buyer does not choose to enter into this kind of an agreement, the individual then remains as a customer of the broker who is then the sub-agent of seller's broker.
Since the late 1990s, there has been a steep rise in the practice of Buyer Agency in the US. Here the agents functioning under their buyers brokers are able to represent buyers in the transaction, but with a written or documented form of “Buyer Agency Agreement” which is somewhat similar to the “Listing Agreement” that exists between the brokers and sellers. This particular operational mode is also known as seller agency. The buyer broker negotiates the price and terms on behalf of the buyers and also makes a documentation of the standard real estate purchase contract form.
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