[Hondaracer]

A huge factor for your listing agent that is often not discussed is the buyers comission. All those "1% realty" etc give the buying parties agent little to no comission so in a lot of ways there isn't much incentive for an agent to show a property to a potential buyer if they are going to make peanuts on it.

When we listed our appartment both agents we were potentially going to use gave the buying agent pretty good comission (I think it's somthing like 2% on first 100k then 1% on the balance?) which they both said is a huge incentive to get traffic to the listing. On top of that I feel like our listing was also one of the nicer listings in terms of photos, description, etc when it was up.