{"id":2247,"date":"2017-09-04T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/news\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=2247"},"modified":"2021-08-03T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T22:24:07","slug":"agent","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/glossary\/agent","title":{"rendered":"Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agent is a person legally acting on behalf of another person or party. In the housing market, a real estate agent (also known as a Realtor) is authorized to act on the behalf of someone buying or selling a property.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean an agent can act completely independently of their client&#8217;s wishes. Agents must act in accordance with the law, their client&#8217;s wishes and based upon their fiduciary responsibility, which means an agent must act prudently and in&nbsp;the best interests of the client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-2247","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-buyers-agent","encyclopedia-tag-real-estate-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}