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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by laurencerowe on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:06PM (#18928289)
Yet somehow people still manage to buy and sell houses in the UK where buyers have no agent representing them. Buyers pay a fixed or hourly fee to a lawyer for conveyancing and sellers pay 1-1.5% to their listing agent. Overall costs seem to end up well under half that in the US (5-6% of sale price).
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Re:Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commis... by stevekemp on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:19AM (#18931376)
I do often shake my head at the ideas of "normal" that different countries have.

I'm from the UK, but in Finland these days, and the way that both of these countries work is very similar.

In America a lot of things are very odd with regard for property, even common things like tenants paying rent by posting/delivering cheques!

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