Total Commission-Going rate ?

[Anonymous]

We are planning to sell with a flat fee Realtor. They charge around $1000 and handle negotiations, provide the software to manage showings, send you a lockbox, etc. but do not do open houses or staging. We will still have to pay for the buyers agent, probably around 2%.

It shows up on MLS as though you're represented under their Realty group. We have wanted to sell ourselves but been reluctant to be the weird FSBO listing.

[Anonymous]

should be 5k to sell a house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are planning to sell with a flat fee Realtor. They charge around $1000 and handle negotiations, provide the software to manage showings, send you a lockbox, etc. but do not do open houses or staging. We will still have to pay for the buyers agent, probably around 2%.

It shows up on MLS as though you're represented under their Realty group. We have wanted to sell ourselves but been reluctant to be the weird FSBO listing.

this is good. Let us know how it went. I wish more people do this and get most of their money back to themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every realtor I've spoken to over the last nine months has quoted 2.5% (minimum) to 4% on the sell side, and 2.5% on the buy side. Across four different brokerages, they have been unwilling to negotiate, giving me all kinds of flimsy reasons why they deserve their rate. So far none of them has convinced me that they will actually hustle to sell one of the two properties we want to list, nor do I get the sense that they will actively negotiate for us on the buy side. It's the same collusive behavior as always.

Don't go with the big name brokerages and the most prominent agents. A good place to look for agents is "sold" listings on Zillow/Redfin for your neighborhood. Look at the photos and listing quality generally, and call up the selling agents for the listings you like. Again, try for a small, independent brokerage that is unaffiliated with any of the big name brokerages.

[Anonymous]

including both sides' commission, I just paid 4% on the sale of SFH in Fairfax

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are planning to sell with a flat fee Realtor. They charge around $1000 and handle negotiations, provide the software to manage showings, send you a lockbox, etc. but do not do open houses or staging. We will still have to pay for the buyers agent, probably around 2%.

It shows up on MLS as though you're represented under their Realty group. We have wanted to sell ourselves but been reluctant to be the weird FSBO listing.

Can you share the name of this place? That sounds like what we’re looking for

[Anonymous]

Absolutely. We're going with Cottage Street Realty. There's another one called Flat Fee Susy. She charges a .25% commission on top of the flat fee, but Cottage Street only charges a flat fee.

And I will chime in later on how it goes for us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. We're going with Cottage Street Realty. There's another one called Flat Fee Susy. She charges a .25% commission on top of the flat fee, but Cottage Street only charges a flat fee.

And I will chime in later on how it goes for us!

This is great. I checked the sites and I don't see her services any different or less than the others. I had worse experience with agents and none of them deserve 6% commission, lol