Understanding selling your home
In today's market, the typical real estate sales person, will come to you and offer to sell your home for a percentage of the final sales price achieved.
Some salespeople will come and offer to sell your home for a fixed fee, and say that this will save you money, when compared to the % of sales price method.
Some agents, may also offer to throw in a "home staging" package, and or a "marketing package" to induce you to choose them.
These two methods, are the most commonly used systems in the market.
An agent explaining the benefit to the seller of the typical real estate commission structure. agreement
Seller's and salespeople, are always concerned about discussing the commission part of the real estate relationship, so if it's OK with you?, we will start this booklet by covering this subject first, to both remove your suspense, and to highlight why you are right to be concerned about how much, and what you pay for, when you come to sell your home.