It’s a bitter lesson. A real estate agent spends money advertising and showing property. But when the deal closes, no commission is paid.
To prove the right to a commission, the agent must prove only two things:
- that the agent was the “procuring cause of the sale”
- that an employment relationship existed between the seller and the agent.
The case Deer Run Properties v Keys to the Lake illustrates that the second point Read the rest of this entry
