/Independent trade coverage
The trade record for transaction coordinators
Every figure on this site is attributed to a named primary source, dated, and corroborated where vendor data is involved.
Reference
Every story the desk has filed under this tag.
2 stories filed under this tag.
House Bill 3137 adds a sixteenth ground for suspension or revocation: a managing principal broker who fails to exercise reasonable supervision and control. The written policy that duty requires now has to name how the office manages unlicensed assistants specifically, not just licensed staff.
Commissioner Steve Strode's column states plainly that the role 'does not exist in statute or rule' in Oregon. A stakeholder survey closed 10 July, and the agency says it will take the question to the Real Estate Board and may form a work group. In the meantime it has flagged two concrete risks: unwritten confidentiality terms, and coordinators who cross the state's one-business-name rule.