(a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to:

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-13-603

  • Agency relationship: means the relationship resulting from an agency contract. See Tennessee Code 62-13-601
  • Client: means a party to a transaction with whom the broker has entered into a specific written agency agreement to provide services. See Tennessee Code 62-13-102
  • Person: means and includes individuals, corporations, partnerships or associations, foreign and domestic. See Tennessee Code 62-13-102
  • Real estate: means and includes leaseholds, as well as any other interest or estate in land, whether corporeal, incorporeal, freehold or nonfreehold, and whether the real estate is situated in this state or elsewhere. See Tennessee Code 62-13-102
  • Referral fee: means a commission or any other type of compensation for the referral of a potential buyer, seller, lessor or lessee of real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-13-601
(1) Solicit or request a referral fee from a real estate licensee without reasonable cause; or
(2) Threaten to reduce or withhold employee relocation benefits or to take other action adverse to the interests of a client of a real estate licensee because of an agency relationship.
(b) Reasonable cause allows a real estate licensee to solicit or request a referral fee but does not necessarily mean that the licensee has a legal right to be paid a referral fee.
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