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Articles tagged with commission
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How much commission?
 Commission cash Everyone wants to pay as little real estate commission as possible, because more money in your pocket means a better house when you buy, or a bigger deposit to make your offer to purchase more attractive, or smaller monthly payments on a smaller mortgage loan, or better curtains for the new home, or a million other things, really. And every real estate agent wants to get paid as much commission as possible, because that is their livelihood – their bread and butter, their lunch money, the food from their children’s mouths… and their Mercedes Benz payments.
So how much commission should be paid? Uncover the full How much commission? »
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Who Pays The Real Estate Agent?
 Don't fight about who pays! Nobody wants to, but somebody has to – pay the real estate agent, that is. So, exactly who’s responsible for paying the realtor’s commission?
No, this is not a silly question. The average person buys and sells property only once or twice in their lives. So, how would you know without asking? Find out more about Who Pays The Real Estate Agent? »
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Open Mandates
 "Open" does not mean "good" My mother always insists that, if she ever sells house again, she’ll only grant an open mandate.
No matter what I tell her about the dangers of open mandates, she won’t budge in her determination. And there are many home owners out there who feel the same. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if this article on open mandates don’t convince you either.
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How to negotiate commission
 Commission negotiations can be brutal The agent’s fee is something everybody (except for the real estate agent) loves to hate. Unless the real estate agent performs a service far beyond the norm, I doubt you could find any buyer or seller who’d wish to pay his/her real estate agent MORE commission than is absolutely necessary.
Informed buyers and sellers know that real estate agency commissions are negotiable, but few people know HOW to negotiate a better agent’s fee. In this article, I discuss how to negotiate real estate agents’ commissions. It gets a bit detailed, but the devil’s in the detail, as grandad used to say! Uncover the rest of How to negotiate commission »
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State of the property
Anyone who has been keeping an eye on residential areas in South Africa can tell you that the South African real estate market is a whole lot slower nowadays than a year or two ago. For Sale signs stand on sidewalks for months – some seemingly sprouting seedlings in the meantime – without success. Uncover the rest of State of the property »
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