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In his book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner point out that a real estate agent has the incentive to sell a home quickly, not get the best price for the seller. Consider a home that is listed at $400,000. Assuming that a selling agent [...]
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), which owns the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), has rules preventing realtors from listing a home in the database for a flat fee. A homeowner simply wanting to list her home in the MLS and is willing to do the legwork to sell her home on her own cannot do [...]
