Letter from an estate agent confirming a sole agency agreement

To

[insert the name, address etc. of client]

[Date]

Dear Sir,

We thank you for your instructions received today to find a purchaser for your property at ______. We note that the asking price is to be Rs. ________ and we will place the property on our registers and seek a buyer at that figure. We understand that we are to be your sole agents for the period of three months from today, and that during this period you will neither revoke our

authority nor consent to the disposal of the property to anyone not introduced by us.

[Insert provision, if any, as to advertisements, best endeavours, etc.]

Our commission at [insert rate] is to become payable on sale to a person introduced by us [or payable on the introduction by us of a person willing to sign a contract to purchase the property on terms acceptable to you], or on sale to a person introduced to you during the said period, whether by us or not, or on breach by you of this agreement.

Yours etc.

[Signature of agent]