diyre

Four questions. Real prices. No commission.

What will selling your house actually cost?

Not a guess. Answer four questions and see the real agents and pros you’d hire, each at the price they actually charge. Nothing saved, no account, about a minute.

How ready is the house?

Photographs are the single biggest lever on how many people ask to see it, and what they are photographs of matters as much as who took them.

Who is taking the photographs?

The one job almost every seller who tried it themselves says they would pay for next time.

How will you set the price?

An asking price set from a guess is the most expensive mistake available to a seller, in both directions.

Who handles the offers and the paperwork?

This is the part sellers doing it alone most often regret handling alone, and the part where a licence usually matters.

Where is the house?

Optional. It only changes who is available, not what the work costs.

What it costs: common questions

Answered against arithmetic you can check.

Can I really sell my house without a real estate agent?

Yes, and most of the work is not the part that needs a licence. Pricing, preparing, photographing, showing and negotiating can all be done by the owner. Two things cannot: entering the listing on the MLS needs a licensed participant, and whatever your state regulates, which usually includes the appraisal, the title work and the closing itself. Here you hire those pieces individually rather than handing over the whole sale to reach them.

How much does a flat fee MLS listing cost compared with a commission?

A flat fee is a fixed number you see before you agree to it. A commission is a percentage of your sale price, so it changes with the value of your house rather than with the work involved. On a $400,000 sale at five per cent, the commission is $20,000, and none of that figure is attached to any particular task. Compare it against the rate you were actually quoted, not against a number we picked.

Is flat fee MLS legitimate?

It is an ordinary limited-service listing. A licensed brokerage enters your property on the MLS and is paid a set fee for that service instead of a percentage at closing. Your listing appears the same way any other does and syndicates to the portals from there. What differs is what you have bought, which is entry and whatever else you chose, rather than full representation.

Do I still have to pay a buyer's agent?

That is a decision for you and, if you use one, your brokerage, and it is genuinely changing. We do not display buyer-broker compensation on listing data and we do not advise on what to offer, because it is a negotiation about your money rather than a platform setting. Ask your listing brokerage what the practice is where your house is.

What does diyre charge?

Our own fee is on the pricing page and is separate from what the professionals charge. Every service on this site is priced by the person doing it and shown before you talk to them. We take nothing from your sale price and nothing for introducing you to anybody in the mortgage, title, escrow or insurance categories.

Do I need an account to see prices?

No. Browsing, comparing, reading a professional's reviews and asking somebody for a job all work with no account at all. You are asked to sign up at the point you actually buy something, and not before.