It sounds to me like the solution is to introduce legislation where the seller receives the final closing price (minus fees and commissions), not the pre-close sale price. Assign as many times as you want prior to closing the deal, but if that $2M house gets reassigned a few times and ultimately closes at $2.6M, that&#x27;s what the seller should receive. Essentially, the sale isn&#x27;t complete until the property is actually transferred.<p>This would protect the interests of the seller and align the agents with their interests, something which is required to happen in theory but seems lacking in practice with rules easily skirted by an agent making laughable claims like &quot;oh, I wasn&#x27;t aware that I would be interested in having a financial stake in this property until an hour after the buyer accepted the offer&quot;.