{"id":2216,"date":"2017-08-26T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastforwardstory.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2017-08-27T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T22:03:41","slug":"what-are-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/2017\/08\/26\/what-are-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Real Estate Commissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 28px 0;position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_rklmg72xub videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like the video says &#8211; real estate agents aren\u2019t paid by the hour!They\u2019re paid a percentage of the purchase price in a successful real estate transaction.<\/p>\n<p>When one agent represents the sellers and another represents the buyers the commission is typically split between them.<br \/>\nIn the US, real estate commissions are commonly 6% of the transaction usually 3%\/3% when split.<\/p>\n<p>No government or industry body sets commission rates. \u00a0Legally, commission rates ARE negotiable. \u00a0However, remember that agents only earn their commission on successful sales.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the work you want them to do for you to evaluate the value you should put on the commission they earn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Like the video says &#8211; real estate agents aren\u2019t paid by the hour!They\u2019re paid a percentage of the purchase price in a successful real estate transaction. When one agent represents the sellers and another represents the buyers the commission is typically split between them. In the US, real estate commissions are commonly 6% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/meridiantitle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}