Massachusetts

Fee paid by the party that contracted with the broker

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 87DDD½State law

A broker's fee may be paid only by the lessor or tenant who originally engaged and entered into a contract with the broker.

Answers the question “What can they charge me to apply?”

The source

… broker or salesperson may solely contract with a prospective tenant to find rental residential real property for a tenant and present an offer to lease to the landlord or landlord's agent and negotiate on behalf of the tenant or may solely contract with a landlord or landlord's agent to find a tenant for a property. Any fee shall only be paid by the party, lessor or tenant who originally engaged and entered into a contract with the licensed broker or salesperson. × Register for MyLegislature Register With An Existing Account Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Google Register With Your Email Address Email Address Password Confirm Password Register Registering... Already have an account? Sign in here. Forgot Password? × Sign in to MyLegislature Sign In With Your Facebook or…

Official law: Open the official source
Document: D057, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
Dates: In force since Aug 1, 2025
Status on Oct 1, 2026: In force

What it depends on

Covers: Conditions not extracted yet.
Key value: Only the party who originally engaged and contracted with the broker may pay the fee.
What you can do next: Read the law at its official source

Audit trail

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Extracted by the model

What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).

Category: Application fees
Requirement: A broker's fee may be paid only by the lessor or tenant who originally engaged and entered into a contract with the broker.
Key value: Only the party who originally engaged and contracted with the broker may pay the fee.
Effect: protection_or_duty
Quote found in source: yes
Confidence: 90%

reasoning boundary

Decided by code

Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.

Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is MA.
Dates: in force from 2025-08-01; before that, not yet in force.
Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.

As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run

Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.

Which buildings it reaches

All 110 sample addresses in Massachusetts on Oct 1, 2026.

110 applies

Boston and Cambridge

Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 6 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.

Decided by code for the example addresses

On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.

471 Columbia Rd, Dorchester: Applies. Statewide Massachusetts rule in force since August 1, 2025 (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 87DDD½); no building condition in it excludes this address.
134 Oxford St, Cambridge: Applies. Statewide Massachusetts rule in force since August 1, 2025 (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, § 87DDD½); no building condition in it excludes this address.