We ended up paying a total commission of 1.5% selling our house in Cupertino, CA, but that was a special situation. The listing agent agreed to accept a 1.5% c

We ended up paying a total commission of 1.5% selling our house in Cupertino, CA, but that was a special situation. The listing agent agreed to accept a 1.5% commission, as the house sold itself - more easily than we expected. (We got 21 offers at or above asking, in a week.) The buyer was also an agent, so she offered to buy without a commission (which effectively added 3% to her bid). I did a lot of work on the selling side: taking pictures, writing the description for the MLS, helping to show the house, including two very busy open houses, negotiating. The house was an as-is tear-down, so there was no staging, just a little bit of tidying up. (Some of the interested buyers wanted to live there, though I warned they they would need to budget for repairs.)