---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS"
description: "Section 1 of the Act exempts an individual not engaged in the business of “wholesaling” real estate from needing to be a real estate licensee. The business of wholesaling is when someone enters into an Agreement of Sale as a buyer, then markets the property and assigns that agreement to a different buyer and collects a fee for that assignment. While this process is unobjectionable under certain circumstances, at other times, it is used as a means to charge an excessive assignment fee, which is “equity stripping” of money that should go to the seller. The Act makes clear that marketing properties this way is the brokerage of real estate and must be done by a real estate broker. This is based on similar laws in Pennsylvania."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "153"
identifier: "SB 201"
citation: "Delaware SB 201 (153)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Evelyn Harris", "Spiros Mantzavinos", "William Bush"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-07-01"
last_action: "2026-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d49a263c-5666-4d11-bd99-177c94604aef"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=142673"
source_hash: "e25f63542ae755f6680ef569c5a1af1b564c70cd83057d9a79fe27d91cc92d67"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
---

# Delaware SB 201 (153) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS

Section 1 of the Act exempts an individual not engaged in the business of “wholesaling” real estate from needing to be a real estate licensee. The business of wholesaling is when someone enters into an Agreement of Sale as a buyer, then markets the property and assigns that agreement to a different buyer and collects a fee for that assignment. While this process is unobjectionable under certain circumstances, at other times, it is used as a means to charge an excessive assignment fee, which is “equity stripping” of money that should go to the seller. The Act makes clear that marketing properties this way is the brokerage of real estate and must be done by a real estate broker. This is based on similar laws in Pennsylvania.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- SM — **26–10** (pass) · lower
- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
- William Bush — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-07-01** Introduced and Assigned to Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Reported Out of Committee (Banking, Business, Insurance & Technology) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 6 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-26** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Assigned to Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-21** Reported Out of Committee (Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce) in House with 8 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-14** Passed By House. Votes: 26 YES 10 NO 2 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT `passage`
- **2026-06-01** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d49a263c-5666-4d11-bd99-177c94604aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).