The Texas Real Estate Commission met in early August. Here are a few actions from TREC’s meeting you should know about.

物业 can be used in 团队 names

An adopted amendment to TREC rule 535.155, Advertisements, removes the term 物业 from the list of prohibited terms in a 团队 name. A 团队’s name must still end in the words 团队 or 集团 遵守TREC规则.

Directional signs get an exception to advertising rules

如果指示标志只包含方向箭头或方向箭头以及经纪人的名称或标志，则不视为广告.

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采用新形式: Notice of Seller’s Termination of Contract

  1. This new form is for the seller to notify the buyer the contract is terminated because either: The buyer failed to deliver the earnest money within the time required under Paragraph 5 of the contract and before the time the seller provided this notice to buyer; or
  2. 另一个由合同或附录的段落编号确定的原因.

Once available, this form will be added to 德州realestate.com/realtorforms, zipForm, and other forms vendors as quickly as possible.

TREC will not create its own earnest money form

TREC in May proposed creating a new earnest money form, 但在收到像你这样的成员的意见后，在这次会议上正式撤回了表格.

TAR continues to offer to members its Release of Earnest Money form, one of the 136 forms available exclusively to 德州2021十大正规彩票app经纪人® at 德州realestate.com/realtorforms.

Proposals from the meeting

这里概述的拟议表格和规则变更已于8月底在德克萨斯州登记册上公布, and the public had 30 days to comment by contacting 一般.counsel@trec.德州.政府.

这些提议的修改最早可能在TREC 11月的会议上被采纳.

2021十大正规彩票app的表格修订

除了 to the revisions proposed in May, TREC提出了经纪人律师委员会2021十大正规彩票app的额外修订 Third Party Financing Addendum. If adopted at the November TREC meeting, the revisions would:

  • Revise the current language in Paragraph B2, 财产的批准, 要求，如果买方想根据本款终止合同, 买方必须在不迟于合同交割日前三天向卖方发出书面通知，并必须向卖方提供贷款人决定的书面证据.
  • Reformat the form for consistency with other TREC-promulgated forms.
  • 将第E2段的最后一句话改为“……经纪人和销售代理人提供的经纪人信息”.”

TREC also proposed additional revisions to the Notice of Buyer’s Termination of Contract. If adopted at the November TREC meeting, the revisions would:

  • 增加一份声明，说明买方在物业审批部分终止合同 Third Party Financing Addendum 贷款人已向卖方递交了一份书面声明，说明为何该物业未获批准，以符合拟议的修改 Third Party Financing Addendum.
  • Add a box to check if the buyer is terminating under Paragraph 3 of the Addendum Concerning Right to Terminate Due to Lender’s Appraisal.
  • 增加一个复选框，以检查买方是否根据合同第6D条终止合同，因为买方或贷款人的及时异议在补救期结束前未得到解决.

Finally, TREC proposed revisions to Addendum Concerning Right to Terminate Due to Lender’s Appraisal 由经纪人律师委员会推荐，以帮助更明确的选择. 了解更多 about how to use the current version of the addendum.

对535的拟议修改.二、经纪人责任

TREC proposed changes to this section, which includes the following:

  • A broker would have to designate anyone who leads, 监督, or directs a 团队 in the brokerage as a delegated supervisor with TREC. 除了, 拟议的变更将把许可证持有人必须被授权为监督者的时间框架缩短到三个月. 目前, 如果经纪人已经或将要监督6个月以上，则必须指定某人为委托监事.
  • 经纪人或委托主管对客户作出回应的时间框架, 代理, or other brokers would be reduced from three to two days.
  • 经纪人或受托监管机构向其代理人交付TREC通信的时间框架将从10天减少到3天.
  • In the section covering records retention, 将删除“工作文件”一词，代之以“与交易各方的通信”，以便明确应保留哪些文件.
  • Brokers would have to add to their brokerage policies and procedures manual that brokers will ensure 代理 are geographically competent in the market area being served; and that brokers will ensure training or coaching for new 代理 when they undertake new tasks.

如果这些提议的变更在TREC 11月的会议上获得通过，TAR将更新其 Model Brokerage Policies and Procedures Manual 必要时, 使经纪公司立即遵守TREC的要求，以维持书面政策和程序. 手册售价99美元.99美元加税，但如果你之前购买了手册，你将免费收到更新. 了解更多.

其他2021十大正规彩票app的改变

A proposed amendment to TREC rule 535.第101条“费用”将把建立或改变赞助的代理费用从20美元减少到10美元.

A proposed amendment to TREC rule 535.191, Schedule of Administrative Penalties, 将一些违规行为移到较低的处罚层，并添加最近采用的规则中的一些违规行为和处罚矩阵中缺少的违规行为.