Broker for owners - benefits / advantages?

I’m not saying the owner can’t do it, although some listings are definitely not very sales-promoting. However, if the owner doesn’t feel like doing it and leaves the marketing to the agent, then the buyer also benefits from being able to find the property at all through the agent’s work. Everyone can decide for themselves, as a buyer I can of course also only search for private sales.

Strictly speaking, the broker also provides a service to the buyer; he places the advertisements and pays a lot of money for it, so that the buyer even finds the property. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the opportunity to pursue the property at all.

Since exactly the same "arguments" are coming up as they did 180 pages ago, I'll happily join in on this game and post the same again.

You can twist and turn it however you want... A real estate agent is an expensive affair. One way or another.
And whether you want to afford this service or not is entirely up to each individual.

In a good location, however, to really see a point in a real estate agent is, in my opinion, not possible if you're honest.
Exceptions, as already mentioned:

- You live elsewhere and have no time for viewings (there are FAR cheaper alternatives even for that)
- bad location
- seller is almost 100 years old and not very mobile.

Everything else is, in my opinion, pointless.
Pointless, however, does not mean that you don’t do it. Each as they please.

If the location is good, you don’t need to negotiate nowadays. The price is fixed, end of story. If not you, then the next one. So the "argument" of "better" negotiation is also thwarted. (Unless you are absolutely crazy. In that case, you don’t need a real estate agent, but a caregiver).

Who pays the real estate agent?
Both parties. That is; buyer AND seller! Both lack the money afterwards in their account. (Seller has to pay it directly. Buyer did not receive this amount.)

Absurd? By no means, the portals also charge very high fees.