We aren't the only ones who believe the Flat Fee MLS model is good for home sellers.
Here's what the experts have to say:
“Real estate broker commissions are strangely unrelated to either the quantity or quality of the service rendered … consumers would benefit most from a fee-for-service approach.”
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, October 2006
“Consumers are paying almost 25 percent more for brokerage services, after adjusting for inflation, than they did in 1998.”
United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, October 2007
New sales models can reduce consumer home sales costs "by thousands of dollars.”
United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, October 2007
“An agent keeps [their own property] on the market an average ten extra days, waiting for a better offer, and sells it for over 3 percent more than [property owned by a client] … a nifty profit produced by the abuse of information.”
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner