Commission, Defaulting Buyer, Commission Payable to Listing Agent #297
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By Gerry NeelyB.A., LL.B. When a buyer defaults and the listing agent sues the seller for commission, there have been two lines of legal thought as to whether the listing agent should succeed. The first is “the ordinary understanding of mankind” that when a homeowner employs an agent to find a buyer, the commission is …