MOVING GUIDES
Before you choose buyer representation.
Begin with the working relationship.
A CLEAR BUYER FEE
Buying a home? $4,950 flat.
$4,950 flat for Averbrook residential buyer representation, including a $995 minimum engagement fee. The minimum is due when substantive representation begins and credits toward the total. The remaining $3,955, less payments toward that balance, is due at a covered closing. Search planning, tours, offer strategy, negotiation and closing coordination are included.
If you cancel after representation begins, the $995 minimum ordinarily remains payable even if you do not buy or use another agent, subject to the agreement and refunds required by law. No additional cancellation or administration fee is added.
Seller or listing-broker payments toward our fee reduce your balance dollar for dollar. If no one else pays toward it, your total brokerage cost is $4,950. Seller payment is not guaranteed. Other closing costs are separate.
This fee applies when Averbrook is your contracted buyer broker. If Averbrook arranges a transfer, the receiving brokerage must first agree to honor your existing fee, credits and service terms. An outside brokerage you independently engage has its own agreement.
See what is included and who paysWho pays, in dollars
Averbrook’s buyer fee is $4,950 in total. Here is how it can divide:
- The seller pays nothing toward it: you pay $4,950, which is $995 when representation begins and $3,955 at closing.
- The seller pays $2,500 toward it: after your $995, you owe $1,455 at closing.
- The seller pays $3,955 or more toward it: after your $995, you owe nothing more.
A 2.5% buyer-side fee on a $450,000 home would be $11,250. The 2.5% figure is an illustration, not a standard or a claim about what other brokers charge. Our total stays $4,950 whatever the price.
Before your first tour
Averbrook and you sign a written buyer agreement before any tour. It states the search scope, the fee, the length of the agreement and how it can end. Read it, and ask about anything that is unclear.
A useful starting point.
Discuss your search, the broker’s services and how compensation will be handled. Read the agreement and ask about its duration, termination terms and property scope.
Where applicable rules require an agreement before a tour, complete that step first. Compensation offered by a seller or listing broker is not something to assume.
General information, not advice about a particular transaction.
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