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No. The duty to cooperate as defined in Article 3 of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics (SOP 3-9) relates to the obligation to share information on listed property and to make property available to other brokers for showing when it is in the seller's best interest.
While listing agents/brokers are obligated to share their listing information with buyers' agents, the obligation does not include being helpful and assisting the buyer's agent in getting to a contract. The seller determines by the type of listing agreement he entered into what services he wants his broker to provide. The seller may not have contracted for his broker to have any part of negotiating a contract. If that's what the seller wants, the listing agent is not violating any rule by not helping the buyer's agent pull a sale together. Read more here.
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