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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6A. BROKERAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

10-6A-4. Broker’s legal relationship to customers or clients.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A broker who performs brokerage services for a client or customer shall owe the client or customer only the duties and obligations set forth in this chapter, unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in a writing signed by the parties. A broker shall not be deemed to have a fiduciary relationship with any party or fiduciary obligations to any party but shall only be responsible for exercising reasonable care in the discharge of its specified duties as provided in this chapter and, in the case of a client, as specified in the brokerage engagement.#

  2. (b)

    Whenever a broker with an existing brokerage relationship with either a customer or a client enters into a new brokerage relationship with the customer or client, the broker shall timely disclose that fact and the new brokerage relationship to all brokers, customers, or clients involved in the contemplated real estate transaction.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 10-6A-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 376, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 929, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V8, 2024 edition, pages 1065 to 1066; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7afbade16da7.