Real estate agents don’t earn a salary. Instead, they generally make money through commissions, getting paid only when a deal closes. This means they can work with a client for months without ...

How much is a real estate agent commission—and who actually pays it? These are common questions among homebuyers and sellers navigating a real estate transaction, and the answers have changed recently ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- It awaits final approval, but a change in the way commissions are charged in real estate transactions could upend who pays for what when buying a home. It's still too early to ...

Washington, DC — Here’s how paying for a real estate agent to sell your home has long been done: A seller hands a percentage of the sale price to their broker, who then splits it with the broker who ...

A $418 million settlement by the powerful National Association of Realtors could potentially lead to billions of dollars in savings for home buyers and sellers. The landmark deal upends policies that ...

Buying and selling a home could get cheaper after the National Association of Realtors agreed to resolve a lawsuit and rewrite several rules that regulate how commissions are set, advertised and paid.

Far removed from the glittering penthouses of Manhattan or the sprawling estates of Palm Beach, hundreds of thousands of agents pound a humbler pavement. Those who sell detached $400,000 single-family ...