Buying Without A Broker

Buy your home confidently with legal guidance, no broker required.

The residential real estate market changed dramatically during the summer of 2024 when the National Association of Realtors entered into a settlement agreement to end litigation of claims brought on behalf of home sellers related to broker commissions.

Protecting your property, your rights, and every deal in between.Protecting your property, your rights, and every deal in between.

No Broker Needed

Here are some things you need to know as a buyer (which are likely different from the last time you bought a home if you have done so previously):

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Seamless Outreach

Sellers are now forbidden from advertising on the MLS the commission they are offering to pay a buyer’s broker for procuring the sale (i.e. ‘bringing the buyer’). Until now, a homeowner hired a broker, the broker lists the property on the MLS, including a note to buyer’s brokers of the compensation the seller is offering to pay them for procuring the sale. Those days are over. Now, your agent has to privately ask the seller’s broker what commission the seller is offering, which could be, you guessed it, nada, zilch, zip, zero, which means . . .

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Data-Driven Mastery

You as a buyer might be required to pay your broker a commission of the home you want to buy is being offered by a seller who only wants to pay his/her own broker and is refusing to pay commission to a buyer’s broker, which means . . .

Content Creation

You as a buyer will be required to sign a binding written agreement with your agent before you can see a home which is offered for sale on the MLS.

Among the questions you might ask is this: If I’m going to pay someone to buy a home, do I get more value from an attorney or a broker?