An Arizona couple decided to sell their home, but when their son said he would buy it, the real estate broker wanted a 5% cut ...
Which would you rather pay a real estate agent to help you sell your $450,000 house: a 6% sales commission or $27,000? They’re exactly the same amounts, of course. But 27 grand sounds like a lot more ...
California law requires house hunters sign a buyer representation and broker compensation agreement before making an offer.
For decades, home sellers typically covered both their own agent’s commission and the fee for the buyer’s broker, a structure that left little room for negotiation. But a recent legal settlement has ...
For decades, if you wanted a real estate agent to help you buy or sell a home, the model was static. At the close of escrow, the seller typically used their proceeds to pay a 5% to 6% commission, with ...
It’s been a few months since new rules to real estate commissions were implemented, changing the way real estate agents get paid when they help buy or sell a home. ABC10 checked in with a local expert ...
The real estate industry is rolling out new rules for paying buyers' and sellers' agents beginning Aug. 17 in a move that advocates say could lower overall commissions, but also put pressure on ...
'The issues we have with home prices are not the prices -- it’s the lack of inventory.' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A recent proposed Realtor lawsuit settlement that would change commission rules for real ...
If you sold a home and paid fees to your agent, you could be part of a class action settlement for real estate commissions. Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, ...
When Dana McMahan sold her home this spring, she decided to try to maximize her take-home profit by skipping out on the help of a full-service Realtor. Traditionally, home sellers in the US have been ...