re: Buyer paying the Buyer Agent a fee

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As a buyer I'd rather finance my agents fee into the purchase price, especially at 3.5% interest over 30 years. Closing costs and 20% down is enough cash out of pocket in my book.

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I don't see why you would not still be able to do that. It would take a change in lending practices, but it's not something that is impossible to do.

In the end, the buyer is getting the same amount of money, everyone knows that the commissions get paid out of closing proceeds anyway, one way or the other. So the net numbers don't change. The appraisal value doesn't change.