When Compensation Enters the Offer, Both Buyers and Sellers Are Put at Risk In my previous articles, I’ve focused on what has changed around buyer-broker compensation and how those changes are beginning to show up in real transactions. This article is not about why the rules shifted — that deserves its own, separate discussion.This piece focuses on the practical consequences of negotiating buyer...
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Part 3 — When Transparency Isn’t So Transparent (to me). A Real-World Look at Buyer–Broker Compensation in Practice In the earlier post of this series, I shared observations about the new buyer–broker compensation rules — and the moment transparency began to feel less clear after compensation was removed from the MLS.This post is about what happened next.Because once...
A Real-World Perspective on Transparency in Today’s Market In my previous post, I shared a few early thoughts on the new buyer–broker compensation rules and why parts of them feel less transparent in practice. Here, I want to go a step deeper. This post looks at how buyer broker compensation changed when it was removed from the MLS, and why that shift still raises questions about transparency...
Buyer–Broker Compensation Rules: A Real-World Perspective (Part 1 of many) Over the past year, the new buyer broker compensation rules have been in place, and I keep circling back to the same feeling: Some of it makes sense.Some of it works.And some of it… makes me go hmmmm. I tend to have plenty of opinions. So rather than turning this into one long ramble, I’m breaking my very deep thoughts...