Thanks for the backup urban cowboy
Yes I have seen an agreement between a licensed real estate agency and realestate.com.au, I have one!
RE.com is owned by a real estate agency (raywhite) who write their contracts with agencies in favour of real estate agents. Whether it is right or wrong that is their terms and if you agree to sign a contract you agree with their terms.
You don't have to list anything on that internet site, there are others, if you don't agree with the morale or the fairness then avoid the site! Or buy it, make raywhite an offer and re-write the contracts in a way that you think it is fair! perhaps only listing private sales!!!
Anyone could have bought realestate.com.au and it could have been bought by a private listing advocate who wrote the contracts in favour of private sales but it didn't happen that way. It was bought and owned by ray white and they have written the contracts the way they want. For people that don't like it then make them an offer to buy it from them and change the contracts! That's proactive, whinging is reactive!
Agreeing on terms by signing a contract then turning around and breaching that contract in a very covert way is not only dishonest it is vicitim!
we see tenants trashing houses because they signed a lease, couldn't afford to pay the rent then blame the landlords for renting to them. How dare someone have a house and I have to rent from them!! Trashing a house is breaching a contract and a way of "getting back" at what some people believe is unfair! All above is very similar!
Hi Xenia
Perhaps you should re read my post the question wasn't do you have a contract but does that contract require the sales agreement between the
agency and vendor to be a standard REI contract?
You claimed the agencies actions were illegal and dishonest, have you
seen their contracts and had legal advice to support this or are you only
being reactive and whinging as you brought up this claim, I'm only asking
questions about this to learn more.
To help you understand how us plebs get confused by the experts in your field, in this thread we have Urban Cowboy telling us:
"Oh, and Ray White last time I looked owned 12.7% of REA (RE.com) - hardly largely owned by RW."
And you telling us:
"RE.com is owned by a real estate agency (raywhite) who write their contracts with agencies in favour of real estate agents. "
When you enforce contracts on behalf of your clients do you work on what
you think is fair or what the legal obligations are, because fairness is often in the eye of the beholder?
Pete