i work at a real estate office.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A real estate broker or real estate salesperson (often called a real estate agent) is a person who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate/real property and attempts to match up sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy. In the United States, the relationship was originally established by reference to the English common law of agency, with the broker having a fiduciary relationship with his or her clients. A real estate broker typically receives a payment called a \"commission\" for successfully matching a seller's real estate with a buyer such that a sale can be made. This commission can be divided up with other participating real estate brokers or agents when applicable. An estate agent, which is a term used in the United Kingdom, is a person or business entity whose business is to market real estate on behalf of clients. There are significant differences between the actions, powers, obligations, and liabilities of brokers and estate agents in each country. Other countries take markedly different approaches to the marketing and selling of real property. In the United States, however, real estate brokers and their salespersons who assist owners in marketing, selling, or leasing properties are commonly called \"listing brokers\" and \"listing agents.\"\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My cousin just started as a Real estate brooker, he is the person between the seller and buyer of a house. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "brokers can be very useful I understand but I dont really understand their job"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "He tries to match up people who are selling their house and people who wants to buy a house. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "so a broker and agent are the same thing"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Estate agent is the term used in the UK. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "oh I see, so really the term is interchangable depending on where you live?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are also differences as for the obligation, liabilities  and powers between an estate agent in the UK and a real estate broker in the US.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "oh interesting but since I am in the US and not in the UK hopefully I wont be using one to buy in the UK anytime soon"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "ALso, in the US, real estate brokers are called listing broker or listing agents. They are all the same."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yes I am pretty sure I have heard them called all of those things"}]