Real estate commissions are inflated by as much as $50 billion per year due to the lack of price competition created by having listing brokers set co-op fees for buyer brokers, according to the report in the Berkeley Business Law Journal.
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Real estate commissions are inflated by as much as $50 billion per year due to the lack of price competition created by having listing brokers set co-op fees for buyer brokers, according to an article in the Berkeley Business Law Journal published this month.
The article, called “Obstacles to Price Competition in the Residential Real Estate Brokerage Market,” is authored by Mark Nadel, an attorney and policy advisor for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since 1990. In a footnote, Nadel stresses that the article represents solely his personal views, however. Nadel wrote a similar paper back in 2006 in which he criticized the real estate industry’s commission structure and said commissions were inflated by $30 billion.