Reyes v. Egner

In Hopkins v. Fox & Lazo Realtors, 132 N.J. 426, 448, 625 A.2d 1110 (1993), we recognized the existence of a duty of care between a real estate agent conducting an open house to attract potential homebuyers and a member of the public who attended that open house. Recognition of that duty of care was intended to ensure the safety of the visitors to the open house tour, limited to alerting open-house attendees “only to defects that are reasonably discoverable through an ordinary inspection of the home undertaken for purposes of its potential sale.” Ibid. In the instant matter, the Appellate…