What Fifthline does — and doesn’t — do.

Fifthline is a private real estate coordination service for NHL players, families, agents, and advisors.

We help organize the move around the housing decision: intake, timing, communication, local market support, action tracking, and next steps.

Fifthline is not a substitute for a licensed local broker, attorney, lender, inspector, title company, settlement provider, tax advisor, or financial advisor.

Where brokerage or other licensed services are required, those services are handled by the appropriate licensed professionals in the applicable market.

A local licensed real estate broker or agent handles the brokerage side of the transaction. That may include listing property, showing property, buyer or seller representation, offers, negotiations, contracts, disclosures, and other brokerage responsibilities required in that market.

In New York and New Jersey, real estate services may be handled through Fifthline’s licensed real estate structure where appropriate.

In other NHL markets, local brokerage services are handled by properly licensed professionals in that state, province, or municipality.

Fifthline may coordinate timing, communication, action items, and status across the move, but Fifthline does not replace the licensed professionals responsible for the transaction.

Depending on the move, the client may also work with a lender, attorney, closing professional, title or settlement provider, inspector, accountant, insurance provider, or other professional.

Those professionals handle their own areas of responsibility.

Fifthline may help coordinate communication and timing across the group, but Fifthline does not provide legal, lending, inspection, title, settlement, tax, accounting, insurance, or financial advice.

Nothing on this website, in the Fifthline Move Board, or in a Fifthline coordination engagement should be treated as legal, financial, tax, accounting, lending, insurance, or investment advice.

Clients should work directly with their own licensed or qualified professionals for advice in those areas.

Fifthline may help identify or introduce local professionals based on the needs of the move, the market involved, timing, discretion, responsiveness, and fit with the client’s situation.

Clients are always free to use their own broker, lender, attorney, inspector, advisor, or any other professional they already know and trust.

Fifthline will coordinate with the professionals selected by the client.

Fifthline may be compensated in one or more ways, depending on the engagement, market, and applicable law.

That may include:

• a client-paid coordination fee;
• brokerage compensation for services performed through a properly licensed real estate structure;
• broker-to-broker referral compensation where permitted by applicable law and brokerage agreements.

Any brokerage or referral compensation is handled through the appropriate licensed channels and disclosed where required.

Fifthline does not accept kickbacks, referral fees, commission splits, or things of value from lenders, inspectors, attorneys, title companies, settlement providers, appraisers, insurance providers, movers, or other non-broker service providers in exchange for steering business.

That distinction is intentional. Fifthline’s coordination should stay aligned with the client’s move, not with vendor payments.

Fifthline is an independent private service.

Fifthline is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or an official service of the NHL, the NHLPA, any NHL club, or any player agency.

Fifthline does not discriminate and does not tolerate discrimination by professionals involved in a move.

Housing-related services must be provided in compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial, municipal, and local fair housing and human rights laws.

Fifthline does not recommend, exclude, rank, or steer clients toward or away from housing, neighborhoods, properties, or professionals based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, marital status, age, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Fifthline’s core work is built around NHL markets in the United States and Canada.

For offseason or second-home situations outside an NHL market, Fifthline may help coordinate the process using the same private real estate framework.

Real estate rules, paperwork, agency requirements, licensing, and closing processes vary by state, province, municipality, and transaction type. The licensed professionals involved in each move are responsible for following the rules in their jurisdiction.