Is a realtor obligated to show all buy offers?

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Anonymous wrote:here is the kick - I know one agent who was hired as a dual agent in DC. He hid all offers that were above the offered price from his buyer client because he had vested interest. Very bad.

Bullshit. You don't. You're just lying.

Yeah, this sounds super fake. The agents know that the other bidders will almost certainly look up the sale when it closes, because they’ll want to know how much they lost by. If the agents don’t just talk about it before the close. When they see they lost to a lower offer, they’ll call to find out more. It would escalate quickly.

I’m not saying agents don’t ever do unethical things, but this one would make no sense. The risk would be extremely high, and the payoff comparatively small.

This was my thought. It would be super risky unless the offer they were withholding was low.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. But the bad outcome is stronger on the buyer agent side: they have an incentive to not show houses to the buyer which have a low buyer agent fee %.

People don’t wait for agents to “show” houses. The apps are where buyers see houses and the agent just unlocks the door if they want to see the house inperson. The fee is what it is.

The buyer agent is more incentivized to say bad things about the low fee house to the buyer (I heard bad things about that roof, that street is loud, blah blah blah). And they can delay on the scheduling of the showing (I’m busy that time, etc)