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Home sale commissions are getting a shake-up this weekend (www.nbcnews.com)

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Changes to realtor commissions taking effect this weekend could give home sellers a lot more negotiating power — and for buyers, potentially some more paperwork.

Starting Saturday, realtors will be barred from offering compensation on multiple listing services (MLS), making it harder for buyers’ agents and sellers’ agents to negotiate fees on their own, as they’ve done for decades.

Until now, home sellers traditionally had to pay commissions, commonly in the range of 5% to 6%, to their agents, who then split that fee with the buyer’s agent upon making a sale. The new rules, which follow a historic $418 million settlement with the National Association of Realtors in March, leave more room for sellers to negotiate those fees down and make it more appealing for buyers to forgo agents entirely.

“It’s the biggest change probably in the history of real estate,” said Mike McCann, a realtor in Philadelphia. “It has created a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety” within the industry, he said.

With the MLS no longer serving as a forum for negotiation, it remains to be seen how agents, buyers and sellers will choose to cover commission costs. While sellers could pass on any savings on the commission to the buyer in the form of a lower home price, it’s also possible that sellers could increasingly choose to ask the buyer to cover some or even all of the costs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

For like 75% of all home purchases, screw realtors. They're fairly useless for what they charge, and any inspectors they recommend are bullshit inspections you wouldn't want to trust.

I bought my house 15 years ago and did it without any realtors involved. Both parties saved thousands in exchange for doing like an hours worth of paperwork.

If it's a simple straight up purchase of a home that you're able to go look at first, skip the realtors. Get your own inspection done after negotiating price without going through a middlemen that try to keep the buyer and seller from speaking to each other, and if you aren't comfortable doing up the paperwork, have a lawyer do it for less than a grand.