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by Ekaros 1522 days ago
Coming from country(Finland) where the buyer does not employ realtor the whole thing of buyer paying someone to get house feels weird. And seller's realtor really doesn't only care about price, but also about the speed they can sell the property, thus spending less time on it.
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The buyer doesn't pay the representative. The seller pays for both agents. Having a buyer represented is generally a good thing even if there are problems. It improves access to the market and helps a person in deciding what houses they can realistically get. A big thing for my wife was that she didn't want to see a house we couldn't afford because of how it would alter her expectations and we couldn't figure out on our own which houses were listing enough below ask that we didn't have a chance at them. Our agent helped us filter houses so that we looked at houses we could end up in.