A listing agent represents the seller, marketing the property, advising on price, managing showings, and negotiating offers in exchange for a commission, typically a percentage of the sale price paid from the seller's proceeds.
Log in to followBought at $210k, all in at about $298k including the renovation and carry. Full gut, new kitchen, new mechanicals, everything permitted. My agent wants to list at $315k. I want $3…
I do passive stuff and read paperwork for fun, and I've been trying to work out the real cost base of the listing business because someone in another thread said 2.5% is mostly pr…
Construction background, learning the money side. I run two projects a year, average sale around $340k. At 2.5% that's $8,500 per sale going to a listing agent, so $17k a year I'm…
Trying to work out which side to point myself at. The story I hear constantly is that the settlement hit buyer agents and left listing agents alone, so build a listing business, c…
I build, mostly framing and additions, and I'm starting to look at the sell side because I want to understand who I'm handing my houses to. An agent sent me a listing agreement to…
I'm planning to sell a small rental sometime in the next year or two and I've never sold anything before. Someone at a meetup told me the seller doesn't pay the buyer's agent at a…
Numbers first. Selling a 3/2 at $480k, listing agent wants 2.5% for herself and recommends we "be prepared to" cover 2.5% for the buyer side, so $12,000 each side, $24,000 total o…