Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes. If you list with One Percent Realty, your home is advertised on both the MLS® and realtor.ca, as well as numerous additional websites.

What does it cost?

This is where we are not like the other agents:

• Homes under $400,000 are $7950.00. This includes $3500 for a Buyer’s agent.
• Homes $400,000 - $900,000 are $9950.00. This includes $4500 for a Buyer’s agent.
• Homes over $900,000 are 1% of the sale price plus $950. This includes 0.5% for a Buyer’s agent.

Each fee is plus applicable taxes. It is as simple as that.

Within our fee we offer a portion to whoever represents the Buyer.

How does the commission break down?

On a $900,000 sale, this is the breakdown of our $9,950 commission 

• $4,950 + GST to the Listing agent

• $4,500 + GST to the Buyer’s agent

Our listings are shown by cooperating REALTORS® every day, just like other listings on MLS®. While we cannot measure showings that we do not receive, our statistics show that over 75% of our listing sales are sold by Cooperating outside agents through the Multiple Listing Service. Therefore, If anyone tells you that our listings are not sold by other agents, they are simply lying. The truth is, buyers, decide which homes they wish to view, not agents. We have years of MLS® statistics across Canada to prove it.

Would they rather have more money? Of course! There’s no argument there, but the fact remains our listings are displayed everywhere that all the other listings are. All our listings are still on MLS® and all of the top real estate websites on the internet. We have a sign on the lawn and advertise, and we do open houses.

If someone is looking for a home in your neighbourhood in the price range you have listed, they will see your home for sale. That buyer will check what is available to purchase in their price range before looking at houses.

Buyers do not usually pay the real estate commission, so why would it matter to them how much commission is offered on the home they purchase?

If their agent is unhappy with the amount we offer, the buyer will call us. The fact is, every day, our listings are shown by the agents time and time again.  All of our sold signs over the years prove it!

Flexibility to offer more commission to the buyer's agent. The choice is yours.

We understand that some of our clients want to offer more commission to the Buyer’s agent on MLS® than $4500 for homes between $400,000 and $900,000 or 0.5% in homes over $900,000—the choice is yours. We will still charge you the same fee for our listing portion of the commission, and you can offer those buyers' agents a higher MLS® commission if that is something you want to do. 

For example, if your home is $950,000 and you want to offer 2% on MLS to the Buying agents instead of our 0.5%, we would charge you 0.5% plus $950 (for our listing side) plus the 2% to the Buying agents. Hence, the total commission would be 2.5% + $950 (plus GST). It’s still a great deal!

Further, since we don’t believe that offering any additional commission is necessary, if One Percent Realty sells your home ourselves without an outside Buyer agent, we will only charge you $7950 for a home under $400,000, $9950 for a home between $400,000-$900,000 and 1% + $950 for a home over $900,000.

When you sign the standard MLS^® Listing contract with us, it lays out precisely the commission cost to you. You are not obligated to pay any fee you do not agree to in writing.

You are in control of the advertising of your home. If you want additional advertising beyond the marketing plan of your One Percent agent, then great! However, you will be responsible for the extra costs of such. Your One Percent agent will require your approval before spending any additional expenses.