Trusted by home buyers since 1995

Your agent should work for you. Not the seller.

Most real estate firms represent both buyers and sellers, so the person helping you buy may also be working for the person selling. Every NAEBA member represents buyers only, and puts that promise in writing.

Tell us where you're buying. We'll connect you with an exclusive buyer agent nearby. It's free, and there's no obligation.

Where are you buying?

Start with the ZIP code of the area you're looking in.

Members cover every property type, nationwide: condos, new construction, luxury, investment, vacation and second homes.

What an exclusive buyer agent actually is

A licensed agent who works at a company that never takes listings and never represents sellers. That one rule changes everything about whose side they're on.

When the same firm works for the buyer and the seller, it earns a commission on both sides and someone's interest gets quietly set aside. Usually the buyer's. An exclusive buyer agent has nothing to sell you and no listing to protect, so they can tell you what a house is really worth, what to offer, and when to walk away.

Because the relationship is exclusive, the law treats it as a fiduciary one. Your agent owes you every one of these duties, from first showing to closing.

Not sure if an agent is really yours? Ask two questions.

  1. Do you work for sellers?
  2. Does anyone at your brokerage work for sellers?

Unless both answers are no, the agent is not an exclusive buyer agent. Every NAEBA member can answer no to both.

  • LoyaltyYour interests come first in every decision, even when a bigger commission points the other way.
  • ConfidentialityWhat you can afford, how much you'd really pay and how badly you want the house stay between you.
  • Full disclosureAnything your agent learns about the seller or the property that matters to you, you hear about, even if the seller would rather you didn't.
  • Skill and carePricing guidance, contingencies written for your protection, and a referral to an expert when something is outside their lane.
  • AccountingFees, who pays them and when are spelled out up front. No undisclosed bonuses or kickbacks.
  • ObedienceYour lawful instructions are followed. It's your purchase.
Since 1995

NAEBA was formed when dual agency became legal and buyers lost their advocate. Thirty years of representing buyers only.

Standards of Practice

Every member pledges to seven written duties to buyer-clients, enforced by the association.

CEBA® certification

Certified Exclusive Buyer Agents have closed at least six exclusive-buyer transactions and passed the official course.

Members nationwide

Independent brokerages across the United States, each one working for buyers and nobody else.

Exclusive buyer agents are recommended by HUD, Kiplinger's, Consumer Reports, the Consumer Federation of America and NerdWallet. NAEBA is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit association of those agents.

Listen Up Home Buyers

The only podcast made by true buyer agents. Host Victoria Ray Henderson talks with NAEBA members and guests about how to buy a home well. 63 episodes and counting.

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Latest episode · August 20, 2026 · 16 min

Learning the loan process with mortgage broker Paul Nowachek

What actually changes between a loan estimate and a closing disclosure, how rates get set, and the first-time-buyer programs most people never ask about.

  1. Introduction to the podcast and guest
  2. Loan estimate details and what can change
  3. Down payment requirements and mortgage insurance
  4. First-time homebuyer programs and research responsibilities
  5. Shopping for mortgage rates and the importance of timing
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471 articles written by buyer agents, not by anyone trying to sell you a house.

"We never felt pressured to settle for a place we didn't love. Otto was always quick to respond, on top of everything, and went way above and beyond for us."
First-time buyers, East Boston, working with exclusive buyer agent Otto Iglesias of Buyers Brokers Only

Are you a broker who represents buyers only? NAEBA membership is open to brokerages that never take listings.

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