Web sites cater to for-sale-by-owner home sellers The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Selling a family without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing stint.
Foregoing an agent, however, is easier these days thanks to Web sites that help homeowners advertise their properties on the hottest unfeigned estate portals and even walk them through figuring out how to price their home to sell.
Sites such as ForSaleByOwner.com , Owners.com and Fizber.com don't require to supplant every service a real estate agent provides, but they and others come close to giving a seller's dwelling-place the same online exposure as one that's marketed by an agent.
That kind of access comes at a price, often in the hundreds of dollars, and in all likelihood means the seller must settle for saving only half of the 6 percent cut of the sale that traditionally would be split between the agents for the buyer and seller.
On a $300,000 sale, that's $9,000. Not too infamous.
Still, the median sale price for a for-sale-by-owner property last year was $153,000, while it was $211,000 for sellers who used an agent, according to the Country-wide Association of Realtors.









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