[rcme]

The seller is paying the buyer's agent so I'm not sure why they'd have a fiduciary duty to the buyer. Agents aren't about representation at all. That's what your lawyer and lender are for (the lender acts in your best interest in their own self interest). The purpose of the agents are to make the transaction happen. The seller's agent handles this on the seller side, e.g. showing the house, making it available for inspections, etc. The buyer's agent makes this happen on the buyer's side, e.g. makes sure the buyer schedules the inspections, has their lender lined up, etc. The agents are there to make the deal happen. That's their only purpose.

[pessimizer]

Neither agent has a fiduciary duty even to the person that hired them, in the US. That situation took a lot of lobbying to create, and takes a lot of lobbying to preserve. The agents can make a deal between them that they both profit from and screws both the buyer and the seller.