Once you’ve decided on an agent to list your home for sale you’ll be required to sign a listing agreement. This is a legally binding contract that gives the broker the right to offer your home for ...

When you “hire” a real-estate broker to help sell your home, you are promising to pay a commission for services rendered if the broker finds a person ready, willing and able to buy your home. A woman ...

Last month, we signed a six-month listing agreement with a real estate broker to sell our home. When our son found out that we were selling our home, he immediately said he would buy it. He now has ...

With most real estate purchase contracts, everything is negotiable. This is also true of listing agreements you may enter into if you decide to use a real estate agent to list, market and sell your ...

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On today’s episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Tracey Velt, senior director of data and content at HW Media, about real estate listing agreements, brokerages expanding into mortgage, ...