Key legal question
Whether the appellant breached his duty of disclosure and loyalty by acting simultaneously as advisor for the sellers and broker for the buyers.
Extracted holding
He had a duty to disclose the dual role and breached it by failing to do so.
Extracted reasoning
The court upheld the finding that the appellant was bound by an agency relationship toward the sellers and a brokerage relationship toward the buyers, and that nondisclosure of the simultaneous representation violated the duty to inform.