Are you asking as a buyer, or as a loan officer?

There are many great advantages to being a buyer or seller. 

Most sellers will laugh when you ask them to reduce the price by 3% because you're not using a buyer's agent.....You can buy and sell your own  properties without a license anyway...  

Otherwise the buyer of your property can try to leverage you since you’re on a tight close time frame.4.  

Don't you put the sellers and the buyers on your own marketing lists?

Unless you have cash backing of your own to buy and a solid commercial buyer's list, these deals are unlikely to close.It doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree with the answer the responding poster provides.  

However, even if we see lower mortgage rates in 2025, as this WSJ article points out, falling interest rates won’t solve all the problems faced by many buyers in current market conditions.What if I’m a buyer?

Buyer-paid real estate agent commission (Yes, I recommend buyers have their own buyer's agents.

If it's there, then the buyer should have noticed that.

I am currently hunting down my first deal and cannot wait to start growing my portfolio.