Same numbers
Every market analysis, offer and net sheet goes to both of you at the same moment. Nobody hears it second.
The neutral sale
I work for the sale.
Not for one side. Here is exactly what that means, and what it doesn’t.
The promise to both of you
I work for the sale.
Not for one side. Three things you can hold me to.
Decisions in writing
The price plan, the bills and the prep budget agreed before the listing, so the sale runs on a plan instead of a mood.
Inside your case
I work within your written agreement or the court’s orders, and copy both attorneys on updates when you want me to.
In detail
Same duties, both of you.
The short answer
When you both own the house, you are one seller together, and I owe that seller the duties in ORS 696.805. In practice: the same information to both of you at the same time, decisions in writing, no messages carried between you, and no negotiating one of you against the other.
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Both of you are the seller
When a couple sells a house they own together, they are one seller with two people in it. Under Oregon law (ORS 696.805) I owe that seller care, loyalty, honest accounting and timely disclosure of any conflict. Those duties run to both of you, not to whichever of you called me first.
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What I do
- Send every market analysis, showing report, offer and deadline to both of you at the same time, in writing.
- Put the decisions you make into writing before the listing: price plan, bills, prep, how offers are answered.
- Copy both attorneys on updates when you both ask me to.
- Work inside your written agreement or the court’s orders, and stop to ask when they don’t cover something.
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What I don’t do
- Take sides on who keeps what, or who was right.
- Carry personal messages from one of you to the other.
- Negotiate one of you against the other, or share one person’s strategy with the other.
- Keep sale information from either of you. If it’s about the sale, you both get it.
- Give legal or tax advice.
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Why it works
Most fights about a house in a divorce are fights about information: who knew what, and when. When you both see the same number at the same moment, there is less to argue about, and the sale can run on its own schedule while the rest of the case moves.
The rule I hold myself to: if one of you would want to know it, both of you hear it.
Can one agent represent both of us?
Sources · checked 23 Oct 2026
Larissa MayfieldOregon real estate broker · Real Broker, LLC · lic. 201231874 · sources checked 23 Oct 2026
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