Licenses and Referral Fees

HomeGift^® Realty, Inc. is a Massachusetts for-profit corporation with principle offices located at 18 North Main Street, Sherborn, MA 01770. HomeGift is licensed as a real estate broker in Massachusetts, Florida and California¹. We can make referrals to licensed real estate brokers in all 50 of the United States. We do not list properties or represent buyers in connection with our non-profit real estate programs. Instead, we refer our participants to qualified, licensed agents in their local areas and the agents pay a referral fee to us for doing so. HomeGift retains 30% of the referral fees it earns from transactions. The remaining 70 percent is paid out to you, or, if you choose, may be shared with a non profit. When you choose to make a donation to a non profit from your rebate, 100 percent of your donation goes to the charity.

We Operate Several Different Programs:

This program allows any buyer and seller to make a charitable contribution to any recognized tax exempt organization³ from their rebate. If the non-profit to which you donate is eligible to receive deductible contributions, your donation will qualify for a tax deduction. HomeGift Realty provides you with a rebate except in the ten states that do not permit rebates. Please consult your tax professional for advice.

These programs are custom built and branded specifically for each of our non profit partners. They enable supporters to make a charitable contribution from their rebate. If the non-profit to which you donate is eligible to receive deductible contributions², your donation will qualify for a tax deduction. Realty Rewards provides you with a rebate except in the ten states that do not permit rebates. Learn more. Please consult your tax advisor about the tax consequences of your rebate and/or the deductibility of your donation in your personal circumstances.

This program is operated for WGBH public television in Boston. Payments we make to your public television station under our Realty Perks program are not tax deductible to you because we make those payments pursuant to a licensing agreement with the station.

Legal

HomeGift is not a legal or tax advisor and nothing contained in the HomeGift Web sites should be relied upon as legal or tax advice. Please consult your lawyer or tax specialist with any questions you may have.

While our programs offer you, the supporter, a rebate on the real estate commissions from your transaction, some states do not permit brokers to rebate or share their real estate commissions with the consumers they represent, so in those states this component of a program may not apply.

¹California License #01779724: Florida License #CQ1026544: Massachusetts License #7040:

²Not all tax exempt organizations are eligible to receive tax deductible contributions. If the deductibility of your contribution is important to you, you should check this status before committing to contribute.

³HomeGift accepts non-profit organizations listed as tax exempt by Guidestar.org as bona fide exempt organizations.