Case ID: so2d_510/html/1257-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stephen L. IVIE, Appellant, v. B.F. HARDEN and W. Bradley Munroe, Appellees.
    No. BP-385.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Aug. 19, 1987.
    Nicholas Yonclas, Tallahassee, for appellant.
    Stephen Marc Slepin, Tallahassee, for ap-pellees.
   PER CURIAM.

In this appeal from a summary judgment in favor of Harden and Munroe, Ivie contends that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment declaring his land sales contract with Harden to be voidable. We reverse.

Ivie asserts that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment because there were material questions of fact regarding the adequacy of a realtor’s disclosure of his dual agency relationship. We agree that there was a genuine issue of material fact on the question of the adequacy of the disclosure, and that the entry of summary judgment in favor of Harden was improper.

Accordingly, the summary judgment is reversed and this case is remanded for further proceedings consistent herewith.

THOMPSON and ZEHMER, JJ., concur.

BARFIELD, J., dissents with written opinion.

BARFIELD, Judge

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent. In my view the trial judge was correct in granting summary judgment because the standard governing disclosure by realtors is absolute and unconditional notwithstanding how fortuitous and fortunate the result of nondisclosure by the realtor might be for one party to a contract.

“Dual agency” of a realtor is a euphemism for conflict of interest. The remedy of the aggrieved buyer in this case is against the realtor for failure to make a full disclosure of the agreements between the realtor and the buyer when the realtor was unquestionably the agent of the seller.

There is no dispute that there were terms and conditions of the relationship between the realtor and the buyer that were not disclosed to the seller. The realtor must make a full disclosure to the seller and buyer and obtain the consent of both. Quest v. Barge, 41 So.2d 158 (Fla.1949).