Ch. 1 Flashcards
The business of bringing buyers and sellers together in the marketplace.
Brokerage
A relationship in which one person acts for or represents another.
Agency
A person who is authorized by another to act on their behalf.
Agent
One who for another person,and for commission, money or other thing of value, negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale, exchange, purchase, or rental of or the granting or acceptance of an option to sell, exchange, purchase or rent and interest or estate in real estate; who shows real estate or a business or it’s inventory; or promotes the sale, exchange, purchase, option, rental or leasing of a real estate, a time share or a business or it’s goodwill, inventory or fixtures.
Broker
The sale or lease of the business and the good will of an existing business, enterprise or opportunity, including a sale of the majority of assets or stocks of the business.
Business Sale
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.
Buyer’s Broker
The person who employs an agent to perform a service on their behalf.
Client
The actual person, within the buyer broker firm that procured the buyer.
Buyer’s Agent
A broker who works in conjunction with another broker in procuring a buyer for the seller’s property.
Cooperating Broker
A person who receives services given on behalf and for the benefit of a client.
Customer
Receiving compensation related to the real estate transaction from someone other than the licensee’s client without prior written consent from all parties to the transaction.
Dual Compensation
A way to defer capital gains tax by exchanging like property for like property.
Exchange
One placed in a position of trust and confidence, normally responsible for the money and/or property of another.
Fiduciary
The body of laws that determines the rights and duties owed by an agent to a principal.
Laws of Agency
A term used by the Department of Regulation and Licensing (DRL) to refer to any person licensed or registered under state law to practice real estate.
Licensee