{"id":630,"date":"2006-11-12T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2006-11-12T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T14:30:10","slug":"beat-the-devil-sunday-whats-the-highest-buyers-agents-commission-you-can-find-in-your-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/630\/beat-the-devil-sunday-whats-the-highest-buyers-agents-commission-you-can-find-in-your-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Devil Sunday: What’s the highest buyer’s agent’s commission you can find in your market . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s print up a junk mail envelope: Doug Quance<\/a> may already have won!<\/p>\n

Witness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think I might have found a winner…<\/p>\n

I searched our MLS yesterday, and found a co-broke of 20%! New construction 4 bed 2.5 bath listed at $270K.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/brokersfirstrealty.com\/2006\/11\/12\/commissions-incentives-and-ethics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s no typo… the listing agent spelled it out in the public remarks…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Barnes dropped a dime on this one<\/a>, not as high in percentage terms but a huge amount of money.<\/p>\n

Can you beat these? I know of a bunch of 10% deals, but nothing this extreme. How about you?<\/p>\n

(Inlookers take note: We come not to praise excessive commissions but to damn them.)
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Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, compensation for buyer representation<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let’s print up a junk mail envelope: Doug Quance may already have won! Witness: I think I might have found a winner… I searched our MLS yesterday, and found a co-broke of 20%! New construction 4 bed 2.5 bath listed at $270K. http:\/\/brokersfirstrealty.com\/2006\/11\/12\/commissions-incentives-and-ethics\/ It’s no typo… the listing agent spelled it out in the public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1659,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1659\/divorcing-the-real-estate-commissions-is-simply-a-matter-of-hud-1-bookkeeping-effected-by-the-mortgage-lender\/","url_meta":{"origin":630,"position":0},"title":"Divorcing the real estate commissions is simply a matter of HUD-1 bookkeeping effected by the mortgage lender","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In a charmingly romantic post this morning, Jonathan Dalton gets bogged down in the all-too-common idea that divorcing the Realtors' commissions would impose some new financial burden upon buyers, resulting in their loss of representation. 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