The buy-side of real estate compensation

Flaws persist in pay system, say some buyer's agents

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It wasn't always easy representing just homebuyers.

Thomas Early recalls colleagues refusing to let him show their homes. He remembers a major brokerage offering him only a 1 percent buy-side commission.

"We were the oddballs," said Early of Buyers Real Estate Brokerage in Columbus, Ohio, which represents only homebuyers and does not accept property listings.

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