Sub-agent Sub-agent Sub-agent (Sub-agency) is a real estate term in the United States and Canada describing the relationship which a real estate broker and his/her agents have with a buyer of a business, home, or property. Lasting until the early 1990s, the broker provided a conventional full-service, commission-based brokerage relationship under a signed listing agreement only with a seller, thus creating an agency relationship with fiduciary obligations under common law in most of the US and Canada. The seller was then a client of the broker. However, no such agency relationship existed with the buyer, and the broker's agents helped the
Northwood (estate agent) Northwood (estate agent) Northwood is a network of letting and estate agents with over 85 offices across the UK dealing with residential property sales and letting. The first Northwood office was opened in Portsmouth in 1995 and, after the opening of a number of other branches, was turned into a national franchise operation in 1999. Offices are now located in cities across England, Scotland and Wales. The guaranteed rental scheme provides the landlord a guaranteed income irrespective of whether the tenant pays the rent or not and during any void periods. This service includes legal costs where possession is required.