Texas Real Estate Commission Contract Forms, Explained

In Texas, the phrase points to one specific body of paperwork: the contracts promulgated by TREC, the state agency that licenses and regulates brokers and agents. TREC currently maintains 45 forms, and a defined subset of those are the actual purchase contracts agents fill out with buyers and sellers. Everything else in a typical transaction file — the addenda, amendments, notices, and disclosures that attach to a contract — comes from either TREC or from Texas REALTORS® (TXR), the state's largest trade association, which publishes 194 current forms of its own.

The relationship between the two libraries matters more than it looks. Forty-one TXR forms are reprints of TREC originals — TXR simply republishes a promulgated form under its own number so REALTOR® members can access it inside their standard forms software. When a form exists in both places, the TREC original is the current, legally promulgated version, and the TXR reprint can lag behind it — a reprint's revision date doesn't automatically track the TREC original's update cycle, so the TREC-numbered form is the one to confirm as current before you send anything to a client. Everywhere else, TXR has built forms for deal types TREC never addressed at all — commercial property, new-construction condominiums, and leasing chief among them.

TREC's promulgated list stops at those six contracts — it does not promulgate a commercial sale contract or any standard lease. Texas REALTORS® fills both gaps. Commercial sales run on TXR 1801 (Commercial Contract – Improved Property) and TXR 1802 (Commercial Contract – Unimproved Property), both last revised in July 2022. New-construction condominiums also get TXR-only treatment: TXR 1608 covers a unit sold after construction is complete and TXR 1609 covers one still being built, both revised June 2026.

Leasing works the same way. There is no TREC lease form for a standard tenancy — the residential and commercial leases agents use are TXR 2001 (Residential Lease), TXR 2011 (Residential Lease for a Multi-Family Property Unit), and TXR 2101 (Commercial Lease). TREC's own 15-7 and 16-7 forms are temporary leases that let a seller or buyer stay in or move into a property briefly around closing — accessories to a sale contract, not substitutes for a standard lease.

You'll also see the same contract republished under two numbers — TREC 20-19 and TXR 1601, for example, or TREC 9-18 and TXR 1607. These are reprint pairs, but they aren't always kept in lockstep: TXR 1601 currently carries a 2024-11-04 revision date while TREC 20-19 is at 2026-05-04, and TXR 1607 shows the same gap behind TREC 9-18. The TREC-numbered form is always the legally promulgated, current original; treat the TXR reprint as a convenience for agents working from a TXR-numbered library, and confirm its revision date against the TREC original before relying on it.

A signed contract is rarely the end of the paperwork. Residential and land deals commonly pick up TREC 39-11 (Amendment to Contract) when terms change after execution, TREC 11-9 (Addendum for "Back-Up" Contract) when a seller accepts a backup offer, and its companion TREC 62-0 when that backup contingency is later removed. If a deal falls apart, the buyer's exit is documented on TREC 38-8 (Notice of Buyer's Termination of Contract) and a seller's exit on TREC 50-0 (Notice of Seller's Termination of Contract). Each has a direct TXR reprint — 1903, 1909, 1913, 1902, and 1950 respectively — for agents working from a TXR-numbered library.

Commercial transactions carry their own dedicated set of attachments under TXR: a financing addendum (TXR 1931), a condominium addendum (TXR 1930, plus TXR 1946 for incomplete construction), a special provisions addendum (TXR 1940), a contract amendment (TXR 1932), a termination notice (TXR 1939), an assignment of buyer's interest (TXR 1943), a critical date list (TXR 1942), and an exhibit form (TXR 1937). Residential files get their own critical date tracker too, TXR 1958, and any contract touching mineral rights should be paired with TXR 2509, which explains mineral clauses in plain language. Disclosure of a broker's relationship with a contract provider or administrator — if one exists — is handled by TREC RSC-4 or its reprint, TXR 2513.

Every one of these forms lives in RaiderX's library at /resources/forms, where you can look up a form by number, category, or deal type and confirm you're looking at the current revision before sending anything to a client.

Knowing which form to pull is only half the job — filling it out correctly, routing it for signature, and filing it into the transaction record is the part that eats an agent's evening. RaiderX's EZDocs, currently in beta, is built to close that gap: every current TREC form and a growing library of TXR forms are instant-fill, meaning you complete a guided questionnaire inside the platform instead of hunting for blank PDFs. EZDocs routes the completed form for e-signature and files the signed copy into the deal automatically, with no per-signature fee stacked on top.

That matters most on the contract side of a file. A single residential resale might touch the One to Four Family Contract, an amendment, a termination notice, and a critical date list before it closes. EZDocs keeps all of them tied to the same transaction instead of scattered across email threads and desktop folders.

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