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If you have to use an agent make sure you get a discount on their commissions
In all states commissions are negotiable downwards.
I don't go into surgery and ask for the discount surgeon...
Sell your property yourself through Investor Mentor. For a small fee you get on Realestate.com.au for set period with photos and all enquiries are sent to you.No commission
Place your property on Gumtree for nothing.
If you are in Victoria go to Lawyerconveyancing.A small set fee including legals. Peter Mericka should be made Australian of the year.
Go Geko in Queensland NSW or SA offers fix prices well under 10K
If you have to use an agent make sure you get a discount on their commissions
In all states commissions are negotiable downwards.
IF they don't give you a discount ask them why not and go to somebody else Most of them will tell you "it is the standard REIQ rate." RUBBISH. It is the maximimum rate.All commissionas are negotiable down.
In places like Qld where there is perhaps twenty agents in every suburb you will be asked to pay too much to enable these franchise agents to stay afloat.The more franchise agents the more you pay
Nobody in Australia should have to pay more than $10000 commission on any residential home sale. It is not rocket science.
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Now, under the right circumstances, there is nothing wrong with an agent reducing their fee. But if an agent was to reduce their fee easily and without putting up a fight I would define that as poor negotiation. And a poor negotiator is not what you want when selling.
A surgeon operates on a set fee which is the honest and honourable way to operate. This is the way realeatate agents should work.
He does not turn around in the operating room and ask you how much your house is worth and charge 2.5% of the value of your home the way agents do . If you don't want to discount Mattysavager why don't you work for a set fee or an hourly rate?