# Are Realtors/real estate agents REALLY worth 6% of the sale price of my home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-realtors-real-estate-agents-really-worth-6-of-the-sale-price-of-my-home/932382 "2021-02-07T18:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 155
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-realtors-real-estate-agents-really-worth-6-of-the-sale-price-of-my-home/932382/155 "2021-10-04T13:37:59Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > Sorry, I thought this was common knowledge to anyone who was following the real estate agency market for the last 30 years or so. > > The term “cartel” was used many many times in the original run of this thread, as well as a few times since the semi-zombie resurrection. A search for “cartel” mention yields this. Riemann: posts 2, 21, 26, 29, 47, 52, 75, 88 refer to it that way. Fotheringay-Phipps challenges if it’s a cartel 31, 39 Crawlspace 52 is the post I missed but of course the legal issue wasn’t concluded when it went to press. So yes, it was mentioned many times by Riemann. It could be just Riemann’s opinion. The article states: > As MarketWatch has previously reported, many housing observers call Realtors a “cartel” for the way they purposely steer clients to transactions in which traditional ways of doing business are observed. “Many?” Not sure what to make of that. Most? Numerous but a small percentage? What will the courts say? I didn’t know if they had reached a conclusion. I may be responsible for resurrecting the thread. I mentioned to the OP of another that this information might be of interest, linked to it to show issues that had been raised. After five months, it’s on the radar again. > [@How do you do a private sale of a house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-a-private-sale-of-a-house/951807): > > So my mom is going to move into a retirement community, since she’s lonely and starting to have some memory issues. My brother and I are all for this- we worry about her living on her own. Anyway, she’s thinking she wants to sell her house to her next-door neighbors’ daughter, who are fantastic people, and who hail from somewhere in Central America. They all want to live together- one son already lives across the street, and this daughter wants to buy Mom’s house. Which is also fine with us,… Post 107 marks the resurrection, maybe 24 hours ago? Since then the term has came up seven times and it’s approaching 50 new posts. By the way, Mrs L has been watching the local real estate market for many years. She had no idea about this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-realtors-real-estate-agents-really-worth-6-of-the-sale-price-of-my-home/932382)._