REALTORS work within a legal relationship called agency.  The agency relationship exists between you the Client, and the Brokerage, your Agent.

The Agent has the following fiduciary duties to the Client:

1)      Loyalty. The Agent must protect the Client’s negotiating position at all times, and disclose all known facts which may affect or influence the Client’s decision.

2)      Obedience. The Agent must obey all lawful instructions of the Client.

3)      Confidentiality. The Agent has an obligation to keep the confidence of the Client.

4)      Reasonable care and skill in performing all assigned duties.

5)      Full disclosure of information that might affect the value of the property.

6)      Full accounting for all money and property placed in the Agent’s hands while acting for the Client.

You can expect competent service from your Agent, knowing that the brokerage is bound by ethics and the law to be honest and thorough in every real estate transaction.