A seller you can't list, because it's not your patch.

Someone wants to sell a place in a city you don't cover. An inherited flat two hundred miles away. A landlord offloading a house somewhere you have never worked. Normally you hand over a name and get nothing. Here you pass the seller to an agent who works that area, agree your fee upfront, and get paid when the house sells.

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This is about geography

An out-of-area seller referral is a seller whose property sits outside the patch you work. You are not too busy and it is not the wrong kind of deal. The house is simply on someone else's ground. An instruction you could never take becomes income, and the seller gets an agent who actually knows the street.

Two worked examples, step by step.

Click through a real referral and watch the record open, the status move and the fee land.

James works Bristol. Margaret has a flat to sell in Edinburgh, so he can't list it. Step through what happens next.

BrokerBroker, in WhatsAppmatches and connects the agents
BrokerBuddy
● online
Morning James. Anything sat on your desk you can't work?
08:52
0:15Got a seller, Margaret Doyle. Two bed flat up in Edinburgh she wants on the market, and that's nowhere near my patch. Who have we got up there?
Your CRMtracks the reference, status and fee

Nothing here yet. When the referral is sent, a record opens and starts tracking.

Why referrals normally go nowhere

Referrals in this industry are a leaky handshake. Someone promises to sort you out for sending a seller their way, then the deal completes eight months later and you hear about it from a third party. It is almost never bad faith. Nobody wrote it down and nobody tracked it.

We make the fee real. It is agreed before the introduction, tied to a reference, and tracked to the sale, so the money follows the work. That is what turns a favour into income.

Agent areas are the engine

Members own the areas they work, by town and by postcode. When you have a seller in Edinburgh and you work Bristol, the network already knows who covers EH and sends your referral to them. The more areas members cover, the more of your out-of-area sellers you can place, which is why we keep bringing agents in patch by patch.

What the fee looks like

Typically 15% of the selling agent's fee, set before you pass the seller across and shown as a percentage and a pound figure. It is payable on completion, when they are paid. No surprises. No "30% of what?"

Sellers people pass most

  • An instruction in a city or county you do not cover.
  • An inherited property miles from where the family lives.
  • A past client who has moved and wants their old place sold.

Seller referral questions.

It is when you have a seller whose property sits outside the area you cover, so you pass that seller to an agent who does work that area. Your referral fee is agreed upfront as a percentage of their selling fee, typically 15%, and it is paid when the house sells.
On BrokerBroker it is typically 15% of the selling agent's fee. You see the percentage and the pound figure before you pass anything on, and the number is fixed at that point rather than agreed later.
Every member owns the areas they work. When you tell BrokerBuddy where the property is, it lists the members who cover that patch, ordered by their Buddy Score and how well the property fits what they sell.
No. Nothing crosses over until they accept the referral on the agreed fee. Up to that point they see the property and the area, and your seller's contact details stay with you.
When the property completes and the selling agent is paid. The referral carries a reference from the moment you pass it, so the status and the fee are on the record the whole way through.
Yes. The same rails handle a buyer relocating out of your area to an agent where they are heading. It works the same way: fee agreed upfront, tracked to completion.
Chase and pullThe other two ways a deal starts.→Seller outside your areaWhat to do with an instruction you cannot take.→MembershipFree until the end of 2026.→

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