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I can see it being useful for sellers, but not buyers.

I do think you should have someone help broker a deal of this magnitude, but it shouldn’t be a realtor. It should be an attorney.

You can get a real estate attorney to do the same thing for like $1500 or less where I’m located (north east). That’s a lot cheaper than what the commission would be for a realtor.

Anyone can find their own houses on Zillow now, and the inspector is separate from the realtor, so from my perspective, all the buyer’s realtor really does is call the other agent to arrange a time for a showing. That’s all they did in my case and they took 3% of the total value of the house (or their agency did - they didn’t pocket all the $ directly themselves).