When is a Real Estate Agent a REALTOR®?

 

The term REALTOR® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. The Code establishes time-honored and baseline principles that come from the collective experiences of REALTORS® since the Code of Ethics was first established in 1913.  Those principles can be loosely defined as:

· Loyalty to clients             

· Fiduciary (legal) duty to clients               

· Truthfulness in statements and advertising