When it comes to making buying and selling properties, you’ve got options. You no longer need to work with a seller’s agent or sell your home by owner. You no longer need to hire a traditional real estate broker when you are buying a home either - nor do you have to find and buy a home entirely on your own. A transaction broker can help - regardless of what your real estate needs are.
A real estate transaction broker is a real estate professional who acts as a consultant, who ensures that your needs are met in the transaction.
For sellers, a transaction broker may help to establish the right price for selling your home or by offering a flat fee MLS listing service that ensures that buyers and their agents know that your property is available. For buyers, a real estate transaction broker can help you to prepare an offer on a home or walk you through the closing process to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
But the best part about using a transaction broker is that you only pay for the services that you need - and not for anything more than that.
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When it comes to real estate relationships, it’s important to understand the role the real estate professional. One of those roles is as a transaction broker.
Just what is a transaction broker?
A transaction broker is a real estate professional who doesn’t work for the seller or for the buyer. Instead, a transaction broker is a sort of neutral party - someone who works with both buyers and sellers. A transaction broker might help the seller with setting the right price or with the closing contract. A transaction broker also might help the buyer to negotiate with a seller or to prepare for the transition into homeownership.
When you work with a transaction broker, you’ll find that you still are doing most of the work to sell or buy a home, however you’ll also save a great deal more than you would if you were working with a traditional real estate agency.
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November 23, 2006 – 8:51 am
A transaction broker can assist the buyer and seller
In the old days of real estate their was one way to buy or sell a house - through your full service real estate broker. Typically this real estate broker, or one of his agents, provided a wide array of services for a fairly large commission rate. Whether or not you required all of the services in their bundle you paid for the entire package.
Today, in most areas, more and more home buyers and sellers are fortunate to have choices in real estate services and the fees that they pay for those services. Transaction brokerage is one of the newer alternatives to the traditional real estate brokerage service model. Rather than acting as an "agent" for the buyer or seller in a real estate transaction, a transaction broker acts as a professional assistant or counselor.
A transaction broker can, for instance, assist the seller of a property in properly pricing the property for sale, assist a buyer in preparing a purchase offer on a home or assist both parties in fulfiling the obligations of the contract towards a successful closing. Although not an agent for either party, they are required to treat all parties honestly and fairly and use reasonable skill and care in the performance of their duties.
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