Are commercial wholesale assignment fees typically a flat dollar amount or a percentage
On residential wholesale deals the assignment fee is almost always a flat dollar figure, commonly in the 10k to 15k range. On commercial deals the fee is sometimes structured as a percentage of purchase price, and occasionally as a percentage of the spread between the contract price and an agreed value. That last structure is worth scrutinizing closely. If buyer and wholesaler disagree on what the property is actually worth, the fee itself becomes the argument, since the spread it's calculated from is subjective rather than fixed. Percentage-based fees do appear in real commercial contracts, particularly on larger deals where a flat fee might undervalue the wholesaler's work, but the agreed-value version needs a clear, objective method for setting that value, ideally a named appraisal standard or a third-party opinion, or it invites exactly the dispute it seems designed to avoid.
