In principle, the flow of purchasing and selling real estate by consumers does not differ greatly between Japan and the US, but in the United States, one transaction is undertaken in collaboration with real estate agents and many experts. Selection of purchaser's loan, Mortgage broker when receiving preliminary examination, Inspector of examination of purchased property is the title insurance company, survey of rights relationship of purchased property is done by settlement company after contract, escrow company before delivery It is becoming. Regarding the sale, the tax advice on the sale is a tax accountant, and the title insurance company conducts the investigation of the rights relation of the sale property. It has become an advanced divisionalized system for safety of customer's transactions.

As a result, the role of a real estate company in the United States is to focus mainly on property search for property purchasers and searching for buyers for property sellers. In other words, it is the shape of real estate sales in the United States to do the best deal as a customer agent.

In Japan, the process of trading is not divided into divisions, so only real estate agents are to do so until the transaction is completed, upon request for purchase or sale. While the property survey is carried out without leakage, since the inspection called inspector is not generally done, even when a flaw of the property is discovered after handover, there may be a problem where the responsibility was. Real estate agents in Japan complete investigation of rights relationships, property investigation, preparation of important matter explanation (in the United States, "Transfer Disclosure Statement", "Property Disclosure Transfer Disclosure Statement", sales contracts preparation, settlement, handover after completion Judicial scrivener does the registration of real estate.