I paid 0.45% and 0.5% commission on two property deals in 2017.
I paid 0.45% and 0.5% commission on two property deals in 2017.
Wow congrats on your negotiation skills. I've never heard of 0.45% for a second-hand property. I got 0.5% on buying a property because I paid the same agent 0.8% for selling my other property, and maybe the buyer of my property and the seller of the property I bought paid him 1% (one guy was the agent for all us), so he still made some good money (not sure how much he had to give to his agency though).
Now if you buy a first hand-property and the developer gives the agent 1-3% I've heard you can try to ask for half or more of that commission the developer gives to your agent.
A death inside an apartment unless it’s a death by suicide or murder does not have much impact on the resale price. No one expects to live forever and if you are in an older building it’s to be expected particularly as dozens of families have come and gone through it. Furthermore what an agent earns in commission has no bearing on your case. There is a website that tells potential buyers/renters whether a property has been the scene of a murder, a suicide or any kind of death not by natural causes. I mean if grandma is hanging clothes out to dry, leans too far out and ends up splattered on the ground floor of her building, that is hardly death by natural causes.