When you appoint an agent to sell your home or investment property, the Real Estate Sales Agency Agreement the agent will ask you to sign will have been drafted by the agent’s lawyers or on behalf of the local Real Estate Institute. Whatever the case, the Agency Agreement will have been drafted with real estate agents, rather than your best interests, in mind.
99% of vendors sign an
Agency Agreement for their
most valuable asset exactly
as the agent presents it.
Negotiating a sales agency agreement with your preferred real estate agent is a critical first step when selling a property. The outcome of that negotiation can have a significant impact on your rights, interests and financial wellbeing. Yet most vendors simply accept the terms of one of the most important agreements they will ever sign.
There is a significant difference between
signing a standard Agency Agreement on the
one hand and striking an agreement that fully
protects a vendor’s interests on the other.
An experienced legal adviser can level the playing field by negotiating amendments to the Agency Agreement to make it as suitable for you as it had been for the agent. A balanced and fair Agency Agreement is essential to outcomes that leave vendors, and often their agents, better off; the so-called win-win. This is what JBL Solicitors helps clients achieve every day.
JBL ensures that Agency Agreements
meet vendors’ needs by equipping vendors with the
same legal firepower that real estate agents use.
Jonathan Bolton has been negotiating real estate sales agency agreements for more than 20 years. Like you, he has heard his share of stories about friends and family members who, only after embarking upon a real estate transaction, discovered not everyone held their best interests uppermost. Rarely was a lawyer consulted about the Agency Agreement beforehand.
It is never truer than in relation to an
Agency Agreement that an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure.
During the appointment of a real estate agent, the vendor’s solicitor’s involvement is often minimal. Yet the best time to engage the services of a lawyer is before any agreement is signed, let alone an exclusive Real Estate Sales Agency Agreement for a highly valuable asset. Yet that is what 99% of people do.
Why not join the 1% that knows better?
A Real Estate Sales Agency Agreement is one of the most important legal documents you will sign. You owe it to yourself and your family to take expert legal advice on your rights and options before you sign.
If you’ve recently signed an Agency Agreement, do not despair. JBL can identify potential pitfalls and explain your rights and options to help you achieve the best possible outcome.
If you are thinking of selling your house or investment property, protect your interests and enhance your upside by contacting JBL Solicitors today.
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