What does an intermediary do?

Intermediary service refers to providing consultation, price evaluation and brokerage for trading activities.

Intermediary service institutions refer to organizations that are between producers, operators and consumers and are qualified according to law to provide services for producers, operators and consumers.

For example, consumer brokers create income for consumers and profits for manufacturers, and play an intermediary role between consumers and manufacturers. Consumer Brokerage Co., Ltd. is such an intermediary service organization. For example, real estate sales also use intermediary services.

Legal characteristics

Intermediary service contract is the basis of intermediary activities, and it is a legal means for civil subjects to entrust others to carry out economic exchanges and various civil activities for themselves in order to meet the needs of production, operation and daily life in a commodity economy society. Therefore, it has a wide range of applications and various contents. To sum up, the intermediary service contract has the following legal characteristics.

Contract definition

What the intermediary provides to the client is not things or work results, but the service behavior itself. Therefore, the object of an intermediary contract is not a thing, but an act that embodies certain material interests, including intermediary, punishment and agency.