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
Estate agent typically Anglo-American, pan-European or global. These firms all seek to provide the full range of property advisory services, not just agency. Only a handful of large firms trade in both commercial and residential property. Estate agents fees are charged to the seller of the property. Estate agents normally charge the seller, on a 'no sale, no fee' basis, so that if property doesn't sell, then the customer will not pay anything to the estate agent and the agent will have worked for the customer, free of charge. If the seller does sell the property and complete the sale of their