[cjg]

For contrast, in the UK we typically don't use buyer brokers at all. Normally the seller pays about 1% to their agent.

[naveen99]

Probably because you pay the state the other 6% as stamp duty who is the true broker.

[twic]

In what sense is the state "the true broker"?

[sharemywin]

there are bunch off settlement fees that go to the government in the US also.