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all commissions are negotiable but most people do not know that. the standard is 7% of the sale price, but that is split 4 way. 3.5% goes to each side (listing and selling), 1-2% of each side goes to the agent's office for providing things like office space, internet access, paper, copy machines, etc etc. in the end each agent only gets 1-2% commission from which they have to pay for annual license fees, mls fees, continuing education, promotional items (pens, cards, etc), operating costs like several thousands of dollars a year on gas alone, etc etc not to mention the huge number of hours, including nights and weekends, that are required.
on top of that 95% of the contracts i see for residential sales state that the 7% is only on the first $100k, after which it drops to 2% or less.
i am not defending agents because most i have met are idiots, but there are a lot of other factors at work that people never know about.
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