Nothing stops a buyers agent from taking on a conflicting brief. A good buyers agent will limit the briefs of the clients they take on to keep a degree of exclusivity. This stops internal competition on properties, particularly off-market ones.
Internal conflict becomes a larger issue for larger agencies, whereas more boutique agencies will rarely overlap.
We have policies in place that ensure we don’t take on conflicting briefs. As long as we don’t step outside the brief we agreed to investigate, every property we look at for our clients is exclusively for them.
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