In addition,the seller’s inflated commission offer cannot be reduced by buyers or their brokers, as Defendants also prohibit buyer brokers from making home purchase offers contingent on the reduction of the buyer broker commission.Real estate brokers handle most residential real estate sales in the United States.In a typical transaction, separate brokers will represent the seller and the buyer of a home.Both the buyer broker and seller broker(also known as the listing broker)are paid a percentage of the property’s sales price.Currently, total broker compensation in the United States is typically five to six percent of the home sales price, with approximately half of that amount—and increasingly more than half—paid to the buyer broker."

Do you lower the percentage to make a deal work or do you just end up putting more down?

Do you lower the percentage to make a deal work or do you just end up putting more down?

I’m starting off in the Houston market and was wondering what percentage is best that I should use when analyzing a deal.

I'm starting off in the Houston market and was wondering what percentage is best that I should use when analyzing a deal.

A few have been leveraging the percentage and forcing buyouts.

I wonder what the percentage of people is that start in real estate in a 'no money down' mindset and either cant ever start, or get their teeth kicked in and move on to something else. 

Is it right to say that we've returned to this percentage of flipped houses being sold, but it is healthy?

If I found a project that requires $100k to get done and it would make 1million in a year, what percentage would you share with the investor?

Only a tiny percentage will refuse and show up in court.