Latest: Florida Realtors has released four new buyer compensation forms. Plus: Links to additional resources related to the NAR settlement.
NEW! Florida Realtors Releases Buyer Representation Forms
Florida Realtors has released four new forms — two compensation agreements and modification forms, for each compensation agreement. All are now available for download on Form Simplicity. (Login required)
These new forms aim to provide maximum flexibility to compensation arrangements in the transaction and are designed to allow the participants in a real estate transaction to memorialize compensation arrangements.
Form 1: Compensation Agreement - Seller to Buyer's Broker (CASB-1). This new form is a compensation arrangement in which the seller agrees to compensate the buyer's broker for procuring a buyer for a listed property. CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW CASB-1
Form 2: Compensation Agreement - Seller's Broker to Buyer's Broker (CABB-1). This agreement memorializes any agreement between the brokers. The seller's broker, also known as the listing broker, to compensate the buyer's broker for the listed property. This agreement is property specific, and the arrangement between the brokers should relate to the listed property, not serve as a blanket agreement between the brokerages. CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW CABB-1
Form 3: Modification to Compensation Agreement - Seller to Buyer's Broker. This form allows the parties to make changes to any material terms of the underlying compensation agreement between the seller and the buyer's broker. CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW MCA-2
Form 4: Modification to Compensation Agreement - Seller's Broker to Buyer's Broker. CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW MCA-1
Questions? Call the Legal Hotline, 407-438-1409
About the settlement
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) announced a proposed $418 million settlement agreement to the Sitzer-Burnett verdict that would end litigation of claims brought by home sellers related to broker commissions.
The agreement resolves claims against NAR, more than one million NAR members, state/territorial and local Realtor® associations, all association-owned MLSs and all brokerages with an NAR member as principal that had a residential transaction volume in 2022 of $2 billion or below. However, agents affiliated with HomeServices of America and its related companies – the last corporate defendant still litigating the case – are not released under the settlement, nor are employees of the remaining corporate defendants named in the cases covered by this settlement. Click here to read the full news article.
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