Broker for owners - benefits / advantages?

The real estate agent realistically estimates the value, creates the exposé, screens the prospects, conducts the viewings, accompanies me to the notary. So, all useful things for me that the buyer has to pay for.

IMHO you are exactly naming the reason why broker fees should actually be paid by the seller. No question, a broker can be useful, but why here, as a matter of course, costs for a service that only benefits the seller should be paid by the buyer is just grotesque.

After all, I don't go to an appraiser as a prospective buyer, have a soil survey done, and invoice the seller for the costs.

As a buyer, costs for a service that I do not use are charged to me here. It is beyond me how one can even approve and find this acceptable as a seller.

I also don't commission anyone to mow my lawn (commissioning and use of a service) and have the neighbor pay for it, preferably with the note "You also benefit from it, it also looks nicer for you"...

The scolding is useless. There is house xy, exactly what you like, but it is simply listed with the agent. So, if you want it, you have to pay. Otherwise, someone else will take it. Those are the rules. Karsten

I can understand all of you. I also didn’t think the agent’s performance was particularly good when we bought the "new" house a few months ago. But that’s just how the market works. At the moment, it’s a seller’s market, and so while you don’t have to like it, you have to live with it.

There is house xy, you like exactly that, but it is now offered by the broker. So, if you want it, you have to pay. Otherwise, the other person takes it.

Oh really, don't tell me. I never claimed that the rules were different, only that I don't find them acceptable for the reasons mentioned... [emoji849]

What one cannot change, one must let stroll.

You can do it like that, but then it just sucks... [emoji6]