What does 'Pooled Commission' mean when buying a property?

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Pooled Commission

Estate Agents generally charge a fee for selling a property. The vendor pays the fee and it is commonly a percentage of the sale price.

Some estate agents work on a system where all the negotiators get paid an equal share of this fee regardless of which negotiator actually made the deal happen.

If you are selling such agents should be avoided as the negotiators have no incentive to compete with each other and so the price you achieve for the sale of your property is likely to be lower.

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Chapter 23: Why Vendors Choose Bad Estate Agents

"... first step is to be sure that the staff are motivated to sell. For this reason avoid agents that operate a "pooled commission". In this situation the fee goes into a central pot and then a percentage of that is shared between every negotiator who works there, whether or not they were involved in that particular transaction. The result is that the moment one negotiator has interest in your property the other negotiators lay off, knowing they will get a percentage of the deal. To them this is a simpler option than coming out at eight in the evening with an alternative buyer even if they might offer you an extra five or ten thousand pounds. That alternative buyer may be desperate to buy your property and more financially sound but they will never be told about..."

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"... commission paid to a negotiator not on pooled commission is usually between ten and twenty percent of the fee the agent is charging. As such negotiating a low fee is not always as clever as you might think. If you feel very pleased with yourself for having bargained with a dozen agents and finally found one you could twist down to 1% consider..."

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What's in the book .....

Why buying property is right for some and wrong for others;
How the media have become unreliable indicators of the market;
Who makes good quality predictions for the property market (and who doesn't);
How the market works over the short term and the long term;
The difference between property bubbles and property booms;
Why it can be a good idea to buy when prices are falling;
The principles of buying a property to let and what the text books don't tell you;
Ways to get on the property ladder when it looks impossible;
How professional buyers and investors work with estate agents to get better deals;
Why you should see as many Financial Advisors as possible;
What to do before you start viewing so you don't lose your dream home;
Who the surveyor, solicitor and estate agent are really working for;
How to make an offer to get things your way;
Who to trust and who, with the best intentions, may be misleading you;
Why you should work to minimise the time between offer agreed and exchange;
Making sense of a property survey including:
- What type of survey to get and why structural surveys can be money wasted;
- Why surveyors should never estimate the cost of works;
- When rising damp, penetrating damp, subsidence, cracking, sagging roofs, bulging walls and all the other frightening things in a surveyor's report might be serious, and when they are not;
- Why asking the vendor to carry out work is not always a good idea.
Step by step guides explaining what should be happening, what can happen, and how to solve mole hills before they become mountains;
Over 140 terms in an easy to use glossary so the jargon of the property industry can be understood;
20 true stories of successes, and disasters, that real people experienced when buying a property.

.... and what's not in the book ...

Continuous commentary banging on about how great property is and that it is the only place to put your money!
Recommending businesses that I get kickbacks from.
Rewording and republishing what is available freely from most websites anyway.
Endless tales of how easy it is to buy property and profit.
Attempts to sell you some course or other product.
Blank pages and spaced out text to make the book seem bigger.