- Official section
- National VI.A.1 and Illinois Article 15: Agency relationships
- Broker weight
- 13% of the national broker portion
- Expected scored items
- Agency accounts for about 13 of 100 national items
Illinois exam glossary
Agency in real estate
Every agency question starts with a human question: whose interests is this licensee supposed to advance? In Illinois, label the consumer, find the written brokerage relationship and designated agent, then assign the duty. A client gets representation. A customer gets honest and careful treatment without advocacy. Payment source, office affiliation, and friendly assistance can distract you, but none replaces that sequence.
Last updated: August 1, 2026
What does this exam area cover?
Short answer: Agency is the consensual relationship in which a broker or licensee represents a consumer in a real property transaction. Illinois ordinarily treats the licensee as the consumer's designated agent while working with that consumer unless a sponsoring-broker agreement provides another relationship. The client receives lawful advocacy, care, confidentiality, accounting, disclosure, and performance of the agreement. A customer is unrepresented but not unprotected. Agency is not decided by compensation. Dual agency requires informed written consent, and different designated agents in one firm may represent opposite clients without becoming dual agents solely because they share a sponsoring broker.
This guide follows the PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet effective June 24, 2026, current 225 ILCS 454/1-10 and Article 15, including the written-brokerage-agreement and disclosure language effective January 1, 2025, and current 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.800 and 1450.830, all checked through August 1, 2026. Article 15 states that it governs covered consumer-licensee relationships to the exclusion of common-law principal-agent concepts and fiduciary duties previously applied to brokerage services. Federal fair housing, Illinois civil-rights law, contract law, entity authority, powers of attorney, property management, teams, referrals, and local practice can add separate duties.
What is on the official outline?
- Topic
- Define agency
- What to know
- representation, broker, licensee, consumer, consent, express consent, implied consent, real property transaction, authority, legal relationship, and Article 15
- Best exam move
- Look for representation and consent rather than assuming every service creates the same relationship.
- Topic
- Identify the consumer
- What to know
- person, entity, seller, landlord, buyer, tenant, prospective client, current client, customer, licensed activities, property owner, and occupant
- Best exam move
- Name every consumer before deciding which one the licensee represents.
- Topic
- Separate client and customer
- What to know
- represented consumer, unrepresented consumer, brokerage agreement, designated agent, advocacy, no-agency notice, confidentiality, best interest, honesty, and assistance
- Best exam move
- Give client duties only to the person that licensee represents.
- Topic
- Apply Illinois' starting presumption
- What to know
- working with, considered representing, designated agent, consumer, sponsoring broker, written agreement, different relationship, role clarity, current law, and no facilitator shortcut
- Best exam move
- Start with designated representation unless the required writing establishes a different relationship.
- Topic
- Build the written brokerage relationship
- What to know
- sponsoring broker, client, written agreement, parties, services, duration, compensation, nondiscrimination, protection period, termination, designation, and signatures
- Best exam move
- Current Illinois compliance requires the sponsoring broker and client relationship to be set out in writing.
- Topic
- Name the designated agent
- What to know
- sponsored licensee, one or more agents, legal agent, named person, exclusion of other affiliated licensees, team, substitute, reassignment, writing, and client copy
- Best exam move
- Agency follows the specifically designated licensee, not every person sharing the company name.
- Topic
- Disclose representation on time
- What to know
- written disclosure, no later than beginning work, designated relationship, agent names, brokerage agreement, separate document, consumer copy, retention, date, and proof
- Best exam move
- Do not wait until offer writing to disclose that the licensee already represents the consumer.
- Topic
- Protect an unrepresented customer
- What to know
- no-agency writing, prevent confidential disclosure, never later than offer preparation, honesty, good faith, reasonable care, false information, known latent physical fact, and no advocacy
- Best exam move
- State clearly that no representation exists before the customer shares negotiating secrets.
- Topic
- Perform the client agreement
- What to know
- promised service, minimum service, marketing, search, showing, offer preparation, negotiation, communication, deadline, property management, lawful objective, and completion
- Best exam move
- A licensee owes both the written services and the nonwaivable duties imposed by law.
- Topic
- Promote the client's best interest
- What to know
- acceptable price, acceptable terms, timely offers, client goal, self-interest, secret profit, opportunity, conflict, competing interest, lawful advantage, and informed choice
- Best exam move
- Choose the lawful action that benefits the client rather than the licensee or another person.
- Topic
- Obey lawful directions
- What to know
- specific instruction, agreement scope, price, showing, offer, communication, confidentiality, discrimination, concealment, false statement, unlawful direction, refusal, and documentation
- Best exam move
- Obedience stops when an instruction conflicts with a statute, ordinance, or rule.
- Topic
- Disclose material transaction facts
- What to know
- actual knowledge, material fact, subject transaction, client decision, property condition, competing offer, buyer qualification, title, conflict, confidentiality, timing, and correction
- Best exam move
- Tell the client material known information unless another valid confidentiality duty bars disclosure.
- Topic
- Keep confidentiality
- What to know
- motivation, urgency, maximum price, minimum price, financing limit, personal reason, business strategy, written instruction, reasonable expectation, permission, law, physical condition, and survival
- Best exam move
- Protect negotiating information even after termination, but do not use confidentiality to conceal a physical fact law requires disclosed.
- Topic
- Account for money and property
- What to know
- earnest money, rent, security deposit, key, document, receipt, custody, ledger, delivery, escrow, reconciliation, disbursement, return, and post-termination duty
- Best exam move
- Track and safeguard everything received in which the client has or may have an interest.
- Topic
- Exercise reasonable skill and care
- What to know
- competence, diligence, accurate forms, calendar, market data, source verification, communication, referral, legal limit, inspection, financing, tax, title, supervision, and records
- Best exam move
- Perform licensed tasks carefully and refer specialized questions beyond the licensee's competence.
- Topic
- Separate compensation from representation
- What to know
- commission, cooperating payment, seller funding, buyer agreement, offer of compensation, referral fee, bonus, source, amount, payment promise, and Section 15-40
- Best exam move
- Follow the relationship documents and designation, not the person who supplies the dollars.
- Topic
- Recognize dual agency
- What to know
- one licensee, buyer and seller, landlord and tenant, same transaction, informed written consent, all clients, prior disclosure, transaction confirmation, limited advocacy, withdrawal, and ownership prohibition
- Best exam move
- Dual agency is tied to one licensee representing both sides, not merely two agents sharing a firm.
- Topic
- Handle contemporaneous offers
- What to know
- same designated agent, multiple clients, same parcel or unit, simultaneous consideration, actual knowledge, reason to know, written disclosure, electronic notice, referral request, and confidentiality
- Best exam move
- Disclose the competing-client situation without revealing either client's price or strategy.
- Topic
- Reject automatic subagency
- What to know
- MLS, cooperation, information source, other broker, other client, subagent, compensation, shared listing, offer presentation, and separate representation
- Best exam move
- MLS affiliation and cooperating payment do not make the buyer's broker the seller's subagent.
- Topic
- End agency carefully
- What to know
- completion, expiration, termination, mutual release, breach, revocation, renunciation, operation of law, accounting, confidentiality, protection period, records, and new representation
- Best exam move
- Close active duties, preserve surviving duties, and confirm whether any brokerage-agreement terms continue.
Which distinctions produce the most mistakes?
- Terms
- Agency vs. brokerage agreement
- Difference
- Agency is the representation relationship. The brokerage agreement is the contract setting services, compensation, duration, designation, and other terms.
- Question cue
- Legal relationship versus governing contract.
- Terms
- Consumer vs. client
- Difference
- A consumer seeks or receives licensed activities. A client is the narrower category of consumer represented by the licensee.
- Question cue
- Service seeker versus represented person.
- Terms
- Client vs. customer
- Difference
- A client is represented and receives advocacy. A customer is not represented by that licensee but receives statutory honesty, care, and disclosure protections.
- Question cue
- Represented versus unrepresented.
- Terms
- Designated agent vs. sponsoring broker
- Difference
- The designated agent is the sponsored licensee named as the client's legal agent. The sponsoring broker contracts with the client and supervises the brokerage structure.
- Question cue
- Named representative versus sponsoring firm.
- Terms
- Designated agency vs. traditional company-wide agency
- Difference
- Illinois designation makes named licensees the client's agents to the exclusion of other affiliated licensees, while the sponsoring broker protects confidential information.
- Question cue
- Named agents versus entire firm assumed agents.
- Terms
- Single agency vs. dual agency
- Difference
- Single agency represents one side in the transaction. Dual agency places one licensee in representation of both sides with informed written consent.
- Question cue
- One side versus both sides.
- Terms
- Dual agency vs. designated agents on opposite sides
- Difference
- One licensee representing both clients is dual agency. Separate designated agents in the same firm can represent opposing clients without that fact alone making either dual.
- Question cue
- Same licensee versus same firm.
- Terms
- Agency disclosure vs. no-agency notice
- Difference
- Agency disclosure identifies representation and named agents. No-agency notice tells a customer that the licensee does not represent that customer.
- Question cue
- You are represented versus I do not represent you.
- Terms
- Loyalty vs. honesty
- Difference
- Loyalty promotes the client's lawful interest. Honesty requires truthful dealing and applies even to an unrepresented customer.
- Question cue
- Advocacy versus truthful conduct.
- Terms
- Confidentiality vs. concealment
- Difference
- Confidentiality protects client information. Concealment hides a fact that law requires revealed and is not justified by client instruction.
- Question cue
- Protected strategy versus unlawful omission.
- Terms
- Cooperation vs. subagency
- Difference
- Cooperation allows brokers to work toward a transaction. Subagency would create representation for another broker's client, which MLS affiliation does not create in Illinois.
- Question cue
- Transaction coordination versus agency duty.
- Terms
- Compensation source vs. agency source
- Difference
- Money may come from another party or brokerage. Agency comes from consent, the written relationship, designation, and law.
- Question cue
- Who pays versus whom you represent.
The A-G-E-N-C-Y check
- Actors: identify every consumer, the sponsoring broker, each sponsored licensee, the designated agent, any customer, and any person with a direct interest.
- Governing writing: read the brokerage agreement, designation, agency disclosure, no-agency notice, dual consent, transaction confirmation, compensation terms, and termination provisions.
- Expected duty: assign performance, best interest, lawful obedience, disclosure, accounting, care, confidentiality, honesty, or customer protection to the correct relationship.
- Necessary consent: test express or implied agency, written different relationship, all-client dual consent, transaction confirmation, contemporaneous-offer disclosure, and permission to reveal information.
- Conflicts and compensation: separate firm affiliation and payment source from agency, then screen for dual representation, competing clients, ownership, referral interests, and self-dealing.
- Your exam answer: choose the action that matches Illinois Article 15, protects confidential information, obeys fair-housing law, documents timing, and refers legal disputes appropriately.
- Person
- Consumer
- Relationship
- Seeks or receives licensed activity
- Core consequence
- Classify next
- Person
- Client
- Relationship
- Represented consumer
- Core consequence
- Advocacy and client duties
- Person
- Customer
- Relationship
- Unrepresented consumer
- Core consequence
- Honesty, care, required facts
- Person
- Designated agent
- Relationship
- Named sponsored licensee
- Core consequence
- Legal agent of client
- Person
- Sponsoring broker
- Relationship
- Contracts and supervises
- Core consequence
- Protects confidential information
- Person
- Dual agent
- Relationship
- One licensee represents both sides
- Core consequence
- Written consent and limited advocacy
How do the rules work in scenarios?
Seller pays, buyer remains the client
Scenario: A buyer signs a written agreement naming Bea as the designated buyer agent. At closing, compensation to Bea's brokerage is funded through the transaction from seller proceeds.
- The written relationship and designation identify the buyer client.
- Section 15-40 says compensation does not determine agency.
- Seller funding does not transfer Bea's loyalty to the seller.
Answer: Bea remains the buyer's designated agent.
Listing agent helps a buyer customer
Scenario: A listing agent gives an unrepresented buyer a property brochure, explains where factual fields appear on an approved offer form, and timely discloses in writing that the agent represents only the seller.
- The seller is the client.
- The buyer received no-agency notice before sharing confidential information.
- Limited lawful assistance does not itself create buyer advocacy.
Answer: The buyer is a customer of the listing agent, not that agent's client.
Two agents in one firm
Scenario: Agent N is designated for the seller and Agent R is designated for the buyer. Both are sponsored by the same brokerage and neither represents the other side.
- Each client has a different named designated agent.
- The statutory dual-agency test follows the designated agents, not firm identity alone.
- The sponsoring broker must protect each client's confidential information.
Answer: This is designated agency on opposite sides, not automatic dual agency.
One agent for both sides
Scenario: The same licensee represents a seller client and buyer client in one sale after only the seller signs a dual-agency disclosure.
- One licensee would represent both sides.
- Every client must provide informed written consent.
- Seller-only consent cannot authorize representation of both clients.
Answer: The licensee may not act as dual agent on these facts.
Unlawful client instruction
Scenario: A landlord client tells the designated agent not to show an available unit to families with children.
- Client obedience is limited to lawful directions.
- The instruction conflicts with fair-housing requirements.
- The agent must refuse, document, and follow brokerage compliance procedures.
Answer: The agent must not follow the discriminatory instruction.
Known hidden physical problem
Scenario: A seller's agent actually knows a finished basement wall conceals repeated water entry that a reasonably diligent inspection would not reveal. An unrepresented buyer asks whether the basement is dry.
- The buyer is a customer, not outside all protection.
- The fact is latent, material, adverse, and physical on the stated facts.
- Confidentiality does not include material information about physical condition.
Answer: The licensee must disclose the known latent material adverse physical fact.
Expired listing and seller's bottom line
Scenario: A listing expires. The former agent then tells a new buyer that the seller had privately said she would accept $25,000 less than list price.
- The pricing floor was confidential negotiating information.
- Section 15-30 carries confidentiality beyond termination unless an applicable exception or agreement changes it.
- Expiration does not make the former client's secret public.
Answer: The disclosure violates the surviving confidentiality duty on the stated facts.
What are the common exam traps?
- Trap
- Following the commission
- Correction
- Compensation does not decide agency; use the agreement, designation, consent, and statutory relationship.
- Trap
- Treating every consumer as a client
- Correction
- A customer receives licensed assistance without representation by that licensee.
- Trap
- Treating a customer as unprotected
- Correction
- Illinois still requires honesty, good faith, reasonable care, accurate information, and specified disclosure.
- Trap
- Assuming a neutral transaction broker
- Correction
- Apply Section 15-10 and the written relationship instead of inventing a facilitator status.
- Trap
- Making the whole firm the agent
- Correction
- Designated agency names one or more sponsored licensees to the exclusion of other affiliated licensees.
- Trap
- Calling same-firm representation dual agency
- Correction
- Ask whether the same designated agent represents both sides, not whether the firm name matches.
- Trap
- Using oral dual consent
- Correction
- Informed written consent from all clients is required before dual representation begins.
- Trap
- Forgetting transaction confirmation
- Correction
- After prior dual consent, obtain the transaction-specific written confirmation the statute requires.
- Trap
- Obeying an illegal instruction
- Correction
- Client directions are followed only when consistent with statutes, ordinances, and rules.
- Trap
- Turning confidentiality into concealment
- Correction
- Do not hide material physical-condition information that is excluded from confidential information or otherwise required disclosed.
- Trap
- Assuming MLS subagency
- Correction
- MLS membership and cooperation do not make a broker the subagent of another broker's client.
- Trap
- Hiding contemporaneous clients
- Correction
- Give written disclosure to each affected client and refer a requesting client to another designated agent.
- Trap
- Waiting until the offer for agency disclosure
- Correction
- Designated agency is disclosed no later than beginning work as the consumer's agent.
- Trap
- Giving no-agency notice after secrets
- Correction
- Warn the customer early enough to prevent confidential disclosure and never later than offer preparation.
- Trap
- Ending every duty at expiration
- Correction
- Accounting and confidentiality survive under Section 15-30 unless a written agreement provides otherwise.
Can you answer these original practice questions?
These questions are original study items aligned to the published outline. They are not copied, recalled, or predicted PSI questions.
1. Who is an Illinois real estate client?
- A person represented by a licensee
- Every person at an open house
- Only the person paying commission
- Every titleholder
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A person represented by a licensee
A customer is a consumer who is not represented by that licensee.
2. What relationship does Section 15-10 initially presume while a licensee works with a consumer?
- Designated agency
- Subagency
- No relationship
- Automatic dual agency
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Designated agency
A written sponsoring-broker agreement may provide a different relationship.
3. Does the source of compensation determine Illinois agency?
- No
- Yes
- Only in leases
- Only in cash sales
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
Section 15-40 separates payment or promised payment from the agency determination.
4. Who is the designated agent?
- The sponsored licensee named as the client's legal agent
- Every licensee in the county
- The home inspector
- The mortgage lender
Show answer and explanation
Answer: The sponsored licensee named as the client's legal agent
Other affiliated licensees are excluded unless also designated.
5. When is designated agency disclosed?
- No later than beginning work as designated agent
- Only after closing
- Only after inspection
- When the commission is paid
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No later than beginning work as designated agent
The written disclosure also names the designated agent or agents.
6. What must a listing agent give an unrepresented buyer customer?
- Timely written no-agency disclosure
- Seller loyalty
- The seller's confidential minimum
- Automatic buyer representation
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Timely written no-agency disclosure
It must arrive before confidential disclosure and never later than offer preparation.
7. When do two agents in the same firm automatically become dual agents?
- They do not merely because they share a firm
- Whenever a sign is posted
- Whenever one commission is paid
- Whenever an offer is emailed
Show answer and explanation
Answer: They do not merely because they share a firm
The test follows each designated agent's representation.
8. Can a client require an agent to discriminate?
- No
- Yes
- Only in rentals
- Only by written instruction
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
The duty of obedience reaches only lawful directions.
9. Does MLS membership create subagency in Illinois?
- No
- Yes
- Only for buyers
- Only with an open house
Show answer and explanation
Answer: No
Section 15-55 rejects automatic subagency through MLS or similar affiliation.
10. Which duties ordinarily survive agency termination under Section 15-30?
- Accounting and confidentiality
- New offer preparation and marketing
- Unlimited negotiation and showings
- Automatic dual representation
Show answer and explanation
Answer: Accounting and confidentiality
A written agreement can affect post-termination obligations, but these are the statutory defaults.
How should you study this area?
- Session
- Session 1
- Focus
- Map the people
- Proof you are ready
- Classify 40 consumer, client, customer, sponsoring broker, sponsored licensee, designated agent, dual agent, principal, cooperating broker, and subagent scenarios.
- Session
- Session 2
- Focus
- Assign client duties
- Proof you are ready
- Audit 35 agreement-performance, best-interest, price, terms, offers, actual-knowledge disclosure, lawful direction, accounting, care, confidentiality, and compliance facts.
- Session
- Session 3
- Focus
- Protect customers
- Proof you are ready
- Review 30 no-agency notice, confidential-information timing, honesty, good faith, false information, latent physical fact, actual knowledge, diligent inspection, and no-investigation questions.
- Session
- Session 4
- Focus
- Master designation and dual agency
- Proof you are ready
- Solve 35 same-firm, same-agent, designation, written consent, confirmation, limited advocacy, ownership prohibition, confidentiality, and withdrawal scenarios.
- Session
- Session 5
- Focus
- Defeat exam distractors
- Proof you are ready
- Audit 30 compensation-source, MLS, cooperation, subagency, facilitator, contemporaneous offer, unlawful instruction, disclosure clock, termination, and surviving-duty facts.
- Session
- Session 6
- Focus
- Run A-G-E-N-C-Y
- Proof you are ready
- Audit two complete Illinois agency files, score at least 90 percent, and state the actors, writing, duty, consent, conflicts, and correct action aloud.
Do not count recognition as mastery. Close the notes and explain the rule, apply it to a new fact pattern, and identify why each distractor fails.
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Questions students ask about Agency in Real Estate: Illinois Exam Guide
What is agency in real estate?
Agency is a representation relationship in which a broker or licensee acts for a consumer in a real property transaction with that consumer's consent. Illinois defines consent as express or implied, then Article 15 supplies the governing statutory structure. The represented consumer is the client, the representing sponsored licensee is the designated agent, and an unrepresented consumer is a customer.
What agency relationship does Illinois presume?
Section 15-10 considers a licensee to represent the consumer the licensee is working with as that consumer's designated agent unless a written agreement between the sponsoring broker and consumer provides for a different relationship. For exam purposes, do not assume silence creates a neutral transaction-broker role or that an unrepresented person is automatically the client of every helpful licensee.
What is designated agency in Illinois?
It is a contractual relationship between a sponsoring broker and client in which one or more sponsored licensees are named as the client's legal agents to the exclusion of the brokerage's other licensees. The sponsoring broker must protect the client's confidential information. Two different designated agents in the same firm can represent opposite sides without that fact alone making each agent a dual agent.
What is the difference between a real estate client and customer?
A client is represented by the licensee and receives the client-centered duties in Section 15-15, including performance of the brokerage agreement, promotion of the client's best interest, lawful obedience, timely accounting, reasonable skill and care, and confidentiality. A customer is not represented by that licensee but still receives honesty, good faith, reasonable skill and care in provided services, protection from false information, and required disclosure of known latent material adverse physical facts.
When must Illinois agency be disclosed?
A designated agent must advise the consumer in writing no later than beginning to work as a designated agent and identify the designated agent or agents. A licensee dealing with an unrepresented customer must give written no-agency disclosure early enough to prevent the customer from revealing confidential information and never later than preparation of an offer to purchase or lease.
Does the person paying the commission determine agency?
No. Section 15-40 expressly says compensation does not determine the agency relationship. A seller or listing brokerage may fund compensation that reaches a buyer's brokerage without converting the buyer's designated agent into the seller's agent. Identify the brokerage agreement, written designation, consent, and conduct instead of following the money alone.
What duties does an Illinois real estate agent owe a client?
Section 15-15 requires performance of the brokerage agreement, pursuit of acceptable price and terms, timely presentation of offers unless waived, disclosure of actually known material transaction facts unless confidential, timely accounting, obedience to lawful specific directions, promotion of the client's best interest over self-interest, reasonable skill and care, confidentiality, and compliance with applicable law including fair-housing and civil-rights law.
Can one Illinois licensee represent both buyer and seller?
Yes, but only as disclosed dual agency with informed written consent from every client before the licensee acts for both sides and transaction-specific written confirmation as the statute requires. Dual agency narrows the advocacy and negotiating information the licensee can provide. It is prohibited when the licensee, or an entity in which the licensee has or will have an ownership interest, is a party to the transaction.
Does Illinois allow subagency through the MLS?
No automatic subagency arises from MLS membership or another similar information source. Section 15-55 says a broker is not considered a subagent of another broker's client solely because of that affiliation, and an offer of subagency may not be made through the MLS or similar source. Cooperation and compensation are not the same as representation.
What agency duties survive termination?
Unless the written agreement provides otherwise, Section 15-30 ends further client duties after termination, expiration, or completed performance except the duty to account for transaction money and property and the duty to keep confidential information received during the relationship. A former agent cannot freely reveal the client's negotiating secrets merely because the listing expired.
Are these official PSI questions or legal advice?
No. The questions are original. The PSI Illinois outline, the Real Estate License Act, and current Illinois administrative rules were checked through August 1, 2026. This is exam education, not legal, brokerage, ethics, compensation, disclosure, fair-housing, or transaction advice. A live matter requires the complete brokerage agreement, designations, agency disclosures, consents, property and transaction facts, compensation terms, sponsoring-broker policy, and qualified counsel when legal rights are disputed.
Primary sources
- PSI Illinois Candidate Information Booklet effective June 24, 2026
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/1-10 definitions of agency, client, customer, designated agency, designated agent, dual agency, and confidential information
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454 Article 15 consumer-licensee agency framework
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-10 relationships between licensees and consumers
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-15 duties of licensees representing clients
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-25 duties in relationships with customers
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-30 duties after brokerage-agreement termination
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-35 agency, no-agency, and compensation-policy disclosure
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-40 compensation does not determine agency
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-45 dual-agency consent, confirmation, and limitations
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-50 written brokerage agreements and designated agency
- Illinois General Assembly, 225 ILCS 454/15-55 no automatic MLS subagency
- Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.800 confidentiality safeguards
- Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1450.830 contemporaneous offers
The current official outline controls the tested scope. Statutes, regulations, and official agency materials control when a general study rule and a jurisdiction-specific rule differ.
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The Pass Illinois editorial team last checked this guide on August 1, 2026. Every practice question is an original study item, and the source links above let you verify the rules that support the lesson.