As contemporary society becomes highly informatized and specialized, many people leave the handling and resolution of their necessary information and business to each subdivided specialist. Like this, specialists are required to have more reinforced s...
As contemporary society becomes highly informatized and specialized, many people leave the handling and resolution of their necessary information and business to each subdivided specialist. Like this, specialists are required to have more reinforced social responsibility in relationship to the public general as contemporary society gives a meaning to how important the social role of the specialist is.
The opening of information through the Internet makes it easy for the public general to make access to all sorts of information they want. In case the general public come to have the further enhanced rights consciousness and level of demand as much, which is not satisfied, they increasingly call the real estate agent, the real estate specialist, to account day by day. There have often occurred cases that the general public suffer damage due to the intention or negligence of the real estate agent, the so-called realty-related specialist call him or her to account.
The damage of consumers related to recent brokerage accidents has become the stumbling block to the stabilization of the real estate market transactions and the real estate brokerage accidents have come to a forefront as a social problem. Accordingly, the Real Estate brokerage Act obligates the real estate agent to take responsibility to pay for damages. For this purpose, real estate agents are affiliated with the guarantee insurance or the mutual benefit or deposit. The mutual benefit system to compensate for damages requires that real estate agents are obligated to compensate for damages so far as they inflicts the loss of property on others due to their intention or negligence though the real estate brokerage accident occurs. Accordingly, there are many conflicts between consumer, real estate client, and real estate agent due to the real estate brokerage accident.
If the mutual benefit system speedily and certainly resolves the problem of compensation for damages due to this real estate brokerage accident, and give the trust to consumers, real estate clients, it would have to go through the institutional change through the improvement of many problems. The following matters come to a forefront as the current problem: the propriety of the guaranteed mutual benefit money; the procedures for claiming and paying the mutual benefit money or the range of payment for it; the problem of the negative prescription of the claim to the payment of mutual benefit money; the problem of publicizing the domain of what role the mutual benefit system as part of compensation for damages performs. The mutual benefit system should be corrected into the methodology that the real estate agent wants and which the real estate client likely to suffer the loss due to the transactional accident.
The direction for improvement of the above-mentioned problem is to adjust the guaranteed mutual benefit money upward to an extent that can sufficiently pay compensation to the brokerage client suffering damage due to the real estate brokerage accident. It is necessary to simply the complicated procedures in case the brokerage client asks the mutual benefit association to pay the mutual benefit money to receive damages due to the real estate brokerage accident. The range of payment for the mutual benefit money should be optimized and documented so that any controversy may not occur between brokerage client and real estate agent. It should enable public consumers to make an easy judgement of whether there is negligence in liability for damages. The clause of the Mutual Benefit Association requires that the negative prescription of the claim to pay mutual benefit money be the short-term period of two years. Therefore, it is necessary to prolong the reasonable period so that any disbenefit may not occur in the consumer's position.
It is necessary to continue paying endless attention to make the future developmental supplementation of the mutual benefit system, the system of compensation for damages due to the real estate transaction accident. And efforts to find out the scheme for improvement of the system should continually be made in the future. This would become a shortcut to revitalizing the real estate market in the future and securing the stability of the real estate market.