If you have not been working with a buyer's agent, there won't be a buyer's agent fee.
Some listing agents insist that a buyer's agent will only be paid if that agent accompanied the buyer to the open house.
Only a minority of buyers hire a "buyer's agent" whose primary responsibility is to them.
If no buyer's agent is involved, the listing brokerage and agent get to keep the entire fee.
Steve Humphris, from the buyer's agent, from Countryside Solutionsm, said with local holdings it will "provide continuity of estate management".
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Unless you have signed a separate agreement to pay a buyer's agent for his time, you won't pay any commission.
If you have been working with a buyer's agent, let the listing agent know about it at the open house.
To solve this problem, many sellers' agents offer to cut their own fee while still offering the full price to the buyer's agent.
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The buyer is the incoming group president of an international communications and IT corporation who is relocating from California, says the buyer's agent, Mike Anastasia of Keller Williams Realty Old Town in Alexandria, Va.
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Legally, the agent's obligations to buyer and seller are generally governed by state laws, and most of those emphasize the agent's fiduciary responsibility to the seller, said real estate expert Jack M.
Wharton real estate professor Todd Sinai argues that even if the seller's agent offered the buyer objective loan advice, the buyer should be wary.
Jenel Lee, who owned a one-bedroom condominium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, received a postcard in the mail earlier this year from Sam Bryan, an agent representing a buyer that was ready to make an offer with a 50% down payment on a unit like hers.
Any agent who brought a buyer to the deal became a subagent of the seller, who paid the commission.
Tuesday the airline announced it has inked a deal with Priceline.com, currently the most highly valued online travel agent that lets a buyer name their own price for tickets and tries to match it.
"In order for the agent to say this is an appropriate mortgage for you, you would have to reveal a lot of stuff to that agent that you might not want to reveal, " he said, noting that a smart buyer would lose negotiating leverage if she let the seller's agent know how much she could afford to spend.
But when the real estate agent leaves the room, the buyer and seller often do a little business on the side.
For every Chinese buyer who trusts a familiar brand or sales agent, many more will figure that a native developer has a better product.
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In most cases, an agent, even if he or she has been working with the buyer, is still paid by the seller, usually by splitting the commission with the seller's agent.
She hates never knowing when a real estate agent might call wanting to bring a prospective buyer to see the house.
There now is "a very interested buyer" though no contract has been offered yet, the agent added last week.
There now is "a very interested buyer" though no contract has been offered yet, the agent added this week.
The listing agent, Rob Kildow of Hualalai Realty, said the buyer was a frequent visitor to the resort.
Estate agent Andrew Harvey said contracts had been exchanged with an anonymous buyer for the manor, and it and its associated gardens would no longer be open to the public.
"Realtors care about only one thing--making the sale, " added Kenneth Thomas, a lecturer on finance at Wharton, adding that if the buyer needs a subprime loan for the deal to go through, the agent is likely to keep silent about the hazards.
Clubs may also contact an agent to work on their behalf and ask them to find a buyer for a particular player.
Travelocity, for one, allows a buyer outside the U.S. or Canada to have any flight booking sent to a travel agent anywhere -- so long as he is a Sabre reservations system user -- to have the purchased ticket issued.
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