Protecting Broker Commission from a Scheming Landowner

This piece unpacks Bayanin v. PNB (2023), where brokers who introduced a buyer were excluded after the deal was recast as a joint venture. It shows how the Supreme Court still treated the arrangement as a sale, affirms the broker’s role as procuring cause, and urges real estate practitioners to secure written agreements and maintain a clear paper trail to safeguard commissions.