These are the terms on which we act. They are short on purpose: an agency agreement a client cannot read is an agreement a client has not agreed to.
Damon BlaQ Consulting acts for one side of a transaction: either the seller or the buyer, never both. Our duty of care runs to the party named in the agency agreement. Anybody else dealing with us — the other side, their agent, a tenant — receives courtesy and accurate information, but not advice, and should not treat what we say as advice given to them.
An agreement begins when you sign it, not when we meet. The first consultation carries no obligation on either side and we will not present an agreement at it. Before we can market a property or submit an offer we must complete identity and source-of-funds checks; we cannot proceed without them, and we will not accept instructions we believe to be given on behalf of an undisclosed party.
You warrant that you are entitled to sell or buy the property, that what you have told us about it is accurate, and that you have disclosed any dispute, charge or restriction affecting it.
Commission is earned on completion, not on exchange, and never on an offer. If a transaction fails before completion, no commission is payable regardless of the reason. Our published rates and the circumstances in which we reduce them are set out on the How We Work page and repeated in your agreement.
Photography, floorplans, staging consultation, the printed prospectus and all advertising are included. We charge no marketing fee, no administration fee, and nothing is deducted at completion beyond the agreed commission and any tax on it.
Where a buyer we introduced completes within six months of our agreement ending, commission remains payable. This is the only tail provision in our terms and we will name the introduced parties in writing when the agreement ends.
Agreements run for ninety days and you may end one at any point with two weeks' written notice. There is no penalty and no minimum term to buy out. We may end an agreement on the same notice, and will do so if we come to believe the asking price cannot be achieved and you do not wish to revise it — we would rather resign than run a listing we cannot sell.
We do not represent both sides of a transaction under any circumstances, including where both parties consent. If a registered buyer of ours wishes to purchase a property we are marketing, we refer one side to another brokerage and record in writing which side we referred and why. Neither party is charged for that referral.
We are property agents. We are not surveyors, solicitors, tax advisers or lenders, and nothing we say substitutes for those professionals. A valuation we give is an opinion of likely achievable price, not a formal valuation for lending or probate purposes.
Measurements, floor areas, plot sizes and service charges are given in good faith from the best source available and should be verified by your own advisers before you rely on them financially. Where we recommend a surveyor, contractor or solicitor we do so because we rate their work; we take no fee, commission or referral payment from any of them, in any region.
Two regions, two sets of statutory obligations. These terms apply in both; where local law requires more, local law wins.
Listings on this site are current at the time of publication and may be sold, withdrawn or repriced without notice. Market report figures are our own analysis and are not a forecast; we state our sources and our confidence in each report, and we do not guarantee outcomes.
Photography, floorplans, written particulars and market reports remain our copyright and that of our photographers. Portals and partner agents may reproduce them under licence. Please ask before using them elsewhere; we usually say yes.
Write to the person on your file. If they cannot resolve it within fifteen working days, it goes to the director, who will respond in writing within a further fifteen. Only then does external redress arise, and we will tell you which scheme covers your region rather than making you find it.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, save that a transaction in Nigeria is governed by the law of the place where the property sits. Nothing here excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Damon BlaQ Consulting, Lifestyle House, 3 Mike Akhigbe Way, Jabi, Abuja. Registered in England and Wales, No. 16229282.
Every business term on this page — the ninety-day agreement, the two weeks' notice, the six-month introduction tail, the fifteen working days for a complaint — is the design's proposal and has not been confirmed by Damon BlaQ. A client could hold the firm to any of it. It needs reading line by line, and the fee clause needs the commission decision that is still open.