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stillsut on Feb 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com

For a house it's 2-5%. At this Rate, it's usually better for the broker to just close the sale whether it's $400k or $500k.

This was an example in Freakanomics Vol 1 I believe.

eru on Feb 20, 2014 [–]

That's the American housing market, I believe.

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