South Carolina Flat Fee MLS & Homes Listed For Sale By Owner on MLS

	Allows choice of brokerage services
	Allows brokers to offer rebates to consumer

Previously, South Carolina state law prohibited a real estate broker from paying a rebate to any unlicensed individual, apparently to prevent unlicensed individuals from acting as real estate brokers.

In June 2006, the South Carolina Legislature changed the law, which now clarifies that real estate brokers may pay consumers rebates as long as they do not pay unlicensed persons to perform real estate services.

South Carolina Flat fee MLS is a term used to describe a practice in South Carolina in which realtors place pertinent information about a South Carolina property for sale into the database of a South Carolina local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for a set fee or dollar amount as opposed to a commission based on the contract selling price of the property.

Counties Covered:

Abbeville Aiken Allendale Anderson Bamberg Barnwell Beaufort Berkeley Calhoun Charleston Cherokee Chester Chesterfield Clarendon Colleton Darlington Dillon Dorchester Edgefield Fairfield Florence Georgetown Greenville Greenwood Hampton Horry Jasper Kershaw Lancaster Laurens Lee Lexington Marion Marlboro Mccormick Newberry Oconee Orangeburg Pickens Richland Saluda Spartanburg Sumter Union Williamsburg York