Today we explore what happens with listing agreements, contracts, commissions, trade transferability, and confidentiality when a licensee departs from a brokerage.
Posts tagged with “Listing Contract”
Legally Speaking Breaking Up is Hard to Do: What Happens When a Licensee Leaves a Brokerage? #573 
Legally Speaking Getting to Informed Consent: Explaining Listing Agreements to Clients #551 
Learn a few key details about listing contracts to fully understand and thoroughly explain to clients before they put pen to paper.
Legally Speaking Drafting a Listing Exclusion #429 
A listing contract may say that no commission is payable in certain circumstances; for instance, if the buyer is a certain person…
Legally Speaking Listing, Cancelled, the Effect of; Buyers Limited Remedy After Closing, to Rescind Transaction #283
The decision concerning the effect of the cancellation of a listing contract upon the holdover clause, which was discussed in Column #279…
Legally Speaking Counteroffer – No Date for Acceptance by Purchaser; No Listing Contract for the Sale of Shares #154
Murphy’s law – if something can go wrong it will, and then get worse – doesn’t always lead to litigation, but when it does, it often highlights a useful practice point…
Legally Speaking Commissions, Garnishees and Interest #97
Before weave the memory of 1986 too far behind, some questions have been asked concerning several of the 1986 Legally Speaking columns…
Legally Speaking Commission – Purchaser’s Default #90
You have a listing agreement with a vendor, a binding contract of sale is signed but the sale collapses because of the vendor’s refusal to complete…
Legally Speaking Commissions – Listing Agreements for Court Ordered Sales #82
A recent decision in an action which is likely to go on for some time involves an owner of a foreclosed property that was sold by Court Order, who has sued the lawyer who was advising him throughout the foreclosure…
Legally Speaking Damages in Lieu of Commission #62
The advantages of a listing agreement which fully describes the basis upon which a commission is earned and the obligations of the owner toward the listing agent, in order to support a claim for commission or for…
Legally Speaking Expired Listing Purchased by Person Previously Shown Property by Licensee #54
There is probably no more frustrating experience for a licensee than to discover that after the listing had expired, a person who had been shown the property by the licensee, had purchased it…
Legally Speaking The Real Estate Act and the End of the 100% House #23
Unless a recent decision is reversed on appeal or the Real Estate Act is changed, the 100% house may disappear…