Pursuant to the Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act, every Real Estate Licensee owes the following duties to every Buyer and Seller.

1. To diligently exercise reasonable exercise reasonable skill and care in providing services to all parities to the transaction.
2. To disclose to each party to the transaction any Adverse Facts of which Licensee has actual notice or knowledge.
3. To maintain for each party in a transaction the confidentiality of any information obtained by a Licensee prior to disclosure to all parties of a written agency agreement entered into by the Licensee to represent either or both parties in the transaction. This duty of confidentiality extends to any information that the party has authorized for disclosure or information required by law to be disclosed.
4. To provide services to each party to the transaction with honesty and good faith.
5. To disclose to each party to the transaction timely and accurate information regarding market conditions that might affect such transaction only when such information is available through public records and when such information is requested by a party.
6. To give timely account for earnest money deposits and other property received from any party to a transaction; and
7. A) To refrain from engaging in self-dealing or act on behalf of Licensee’s immediate family, or on behalf of any other individual, organization or business entity in which Licensee has a personal interest without prior disclosure of such personal interest and the timely written consent of all parties to the transaction; and
   B) To refrain from recommending to any party to the transaction the use of services of another individual, organization or business entity in which the Licensee has an interest or from whom the Licensee may receive a referral fee or other compensation for the referral, other than referrals to other Licensees to provide Real Estate Services, without timely disclosing to the party who receives the referral, the Licensee’s interest in such referral or the fact that a referral fee may be received.

In addition to the above, the Licensee has the following duties to his/her Client if the Licensee has become an Agent or Designated Agent in a transaction:

8. Obey all lawful instructions of the client when such instructions are within the scope of the agency agreement between the Licensee and Licensee’s client; and
9. Be loyal to the interests of the client. A Licensee must place the interests of the client before all others in negotiation of a transaction and in other activities, except where such loyalty duty would violate Licensee’s duties to a customer in the transaction.