Illinois, North Carolina & Pennsylvania Agents: Your State-Specific Forms Library Is Live
Ten states down, forty-one to go. The Real Estate Forms Library launched with California, Texas, Florida, and New York, then added Georgia, New Jersey, and Arizona. Today it grows by three more: Illinois, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are now live, each with all 12 core forms fully re-drafted around that state's own license act, agency statute, and disclosure law. That brings the catalog to 10 states and 120 live state-specific editions.
If you hold a license in Chicago, Charlotte, Philadelphia, or anywhere else in those three states, here's what changed and why it matters for the paperwork sitting in your transaction file right now.
The pattern hasn't changed — and that's the point
Every state edition in this library goes through the same discipline: pull the master template, strip the generic 50-state appendix, and rebuild the state-specific sections around that state's actual statutes — agency disclosure law, dual agency or designated agency rules, seller disclosure requirements, independent contractor/license law, e-signature validity, the statute of frauds, and broker lien or commission protection law where it exists. No citation gets invented. Where a rule is settled practice rather than a numbered statute, the notes say so instead of manufacturing authority. No association-form language gets copied — not the Illinois REALTORS® forms, not the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® standard forms, not the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors® library. These are independently drafted templates meant to be reviewed with your broker and state counsel, not repackaged association paperwork.
What just went live in Illinois
Illinois real estate practice runs through the Real Estate License Act of 2000, codified at 225 ILCS 454. That statute is the backbone of the entire Illinois set, and its dual-agency provision — 225 ILCS 454/15-45 — gets the most direct treatment.
The Dual Agency Informed Consent — Illinois Edition documents exactly what 225 ILCS 454/15-45 requires: a general, written consent to the possibility of dual agency obtained at the brokerage-agreement stage, and a second, transaction-specific confirmation once dual agency actually arises. Without that two-step consent, Illinois law treats the dual representation as unauthorized. The Illinois edition also builds in the designated-agency alternative — a structure under the same Act that lets a brokerage designate separate licensees for each side of the deal, each owing full representation to their own client, without triggering the dual-agency consent requirements at all. For brokerages that prefer to avoid true dual agency altogether, that's the form this edition supports.
The Seller Property Condition Disclosure Statement — Illinois Edition is built around the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act, 765 ILCS 77, which requires sellers of most 1-to-4-unit residential properties to complete and deliver the statutory disclosure report before the contract is signed — not after. The Illinois edition's notes flag the interaction with the separate radon disclosure obligation under 420 ILCS 46 and the federal lead-based paint rule, since Illinois sellers frequently owe all three at once on an older Chicago-area property.
The remaining ten Illinois editions — Exclusive Right to Sell, Exclusive Buyer Representation Agreement, Lead-Based Paint Disclosure, Addendum to Purchase Agreement, Counteroffer Form, Independent Contractor Agreement (Agent–Broker), Referral Agreement (Broker-to-Broker), Real Estate Team Agreement, Commission Disbursement Authorization, and Termination of Listing Agreement — all route compensation, team-name, and advertising language back through 225 ILCS 454, which governs who can earn licensed compensation and how teams must identify themselves to the public.
What just went live in North Carolina
North Carolina's real estate license law lives in Chapter 93A of the General Statutes, with § 93A-6 setting out the licensing-board grounds for discipline — including acting for more than one party without proper written consent. The North Carolina Real Estate Commission's agency rules fill in the operational detail on top of that statute, and the North Carolina editions are drafted to track both.
The Dual Agency Informed Consent — North Carolina Edition walks the parties through exactly what changes when a firm represents both sides: the firm can no longer give either party undivided loyalty on price and negotiating position, and the consent form says so in plain language rather than legal shorthand. It also flags situations where dual agency isn't available at all under the brokerage's own designated-agency election, which North Carolina permits as a structural alternative.
The Seller Property Condition Disclosure Statement — North Carolina Edition is built around the Residential Property and Owners' Association Disclosure Statement requirement at N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47E-1 et seq. — one of the more detailed statutory disclosure regimes in the country, since it folds HOA and owners'-association disclosure into the same mandatory form as the physical-condition disclosure. The North Carolina edition's notes also touch N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-311, the state's electronic transactions framework, which is what makes e-signed disclosures enforceable in North Carolina closings.
The rest of the North Carolina set — covering listing and buyer agreements, lead paint, the addendum, counteroffer, termination, and the brokerage-and-team forms — carries the same N.C. Gen. Stat. Ch. 93A grounding throughout, including the licensing board's rules on how commissions may be earned, split, and disbursed.
What just went live in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania practice runs on the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act — RELRA, 63 P.S. § 455.101 et seq. — which is one of the more detailed state license acts in its treatment of agency relationships, and the Pennsylvania editions are drafted directly against it.
The Dual Agency Informed Consent — Pennsylvania Edition documents the prior written consent of both parties that RELRA requires at 63 P.S. §§ 455.606–.608 before a licensee may act as a dual agent, and separately documents Pennsylvania's designated-agency alternative, under which the employing broker designates one licensee to represent the seller and another to represent the buyer within the same firm — each owing full, undivided duties to their own client rather than the limited duties of dual agency. The edition also spells out the licensee duties RELRA preserves even in a dual-agency scenario: honesty and disclosure of known material defects, among others.
The Seller Property Condition Disclosure Statement — Pennsylvania Edition is built around the Real Estate Seller Disclosure Law, 68 P.S. § 7301 et seq., which requires sellers of most residential real property to complete and deliver the statutory property disclosure statement before an agreement of sale is signed. The Pennsylvania edition's notes also flag the separate certificate obligations that can apply under the Uniform Condominium Act and Uniform Planned Community Act at 68 Pa. C.S. for condo and planned-community resales, which layer on top of the standard seller disclosure in those transactions.
The remaining Pennsylvania editions — the full listing and buyer-agreement set, lead paint, addendum, counteroffer, termination, and brokerage-and-team forms — all carry RELRA-grounded commission and licensee-duty language consistent with the rest of the set.
What stayed out, on purpose
The same three subtractions that defined the earlier state launches apply here. No 50-state appendix — the Illinois edition doesn't need a summary of Pennsylvania's designated-agency mechanics sitting in the back pages, and vice versa; what you get instead is denser, state-specific drafting commentary embedded next to the provisions it actually explains. No invented citations — where Illinois, North Carolina, or Pennsylvania law is genuinely unsettled or purely a matter of local custom, the notes say that instead of manufacturing a statute number to sound authoritative. And no association-form language — the Illinois, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania editions are independently drafted, not adaptations of REALTOR® association member forms, which remain member benefits under their own licensing terms.
Using the new editions responsibly
The same three practices that applied to the last expansion apply here, because they're not state-specific — they're just good practice. Run your brokerage's forms or legal review before first use, especially around designated-agency elections and commission-split language that needs to match your firm's actual policies. Don't mix state editions mid-transaction — if the file was opened on an Illinois listing agreement, keep every downstream form (counteroffer, addendum, disclosures) in the Illinois set so the citations and defined terms stay internally consistent. And retain executed copies for as long as your state's recordkeeping rules require — 225 ILCS 454, N.C. Gen. Stat. Ch. 93A, and RELRA all assume the broker can produce the signed disclosure or consent form years after closing if a complaint surfaces.
Format and pricing
Every state edition follows the same format established with the first four states: a fill-in-the-blank PDF at professional print quality, numbered sections, integrated drafting commentary flagging the provisions a forms committee would want reviewed, full signature blocks sized to the actual party structure, and a concise statement of the state's governing framework up front instead of a 50-state survey in the back. Price is $2.00 per form. Browse the full product catalog, or start from a form-type hub like the exclusive right to sell listing agreement hub or the seller disclosure hub and filter down to the Illinois, North Carolina, or Pennsylvania edition.
What's next
Ten states and 120 live editions down, 41 jurisdictions to go. Virginia, Washington, and Colorado are next in the population-weighted sequence, followed by Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Maryland, and Massachusetts, then the remaining states, with DC closing out the map. Once all 51 jurisdictions are live, the library shifts to new form types — escalation addenda, escrow instructions, open house sign-in and liability waivers, FSBO commission agreements, lease listing agreements, and property management agreements — each rolled out across every live state from day one.
If you practice in Illinois, North Carolina, or Pennsylvania, your forms library just caught up with the license you're actually practicing under.