PeterSidorkiewicz
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Buyer's agent though will typically only direct you to sales by other agents, as sale by owner commissions are less.
You can actually usually convince the seller's agent to reduce some of the 5% commission if you don't have an agent, as they no longer have to split with yours.
So a buyers agent does cost you something indirectly.
Of course in Ontario, they're still keeping all the sales history records secret so that is one advantage agents have over non agents (unless you have a friend who is one and can hook you up with comparables).
Also, even in this ridiculous market I think the seller is still paying closing costs. So it's not like you're paying the lawyer much more than 100 bucks for looking over a status certificate or something like that.
True true but I think the cost benefit analysis is that I'd rather just deal with having a buyers agent than doing a for sale by owner and getting all that done on my own, which is definitely doable as people obviously do it.
I mean I figure this is why real estate agents still exist.