Owner to owner

Sell the house. Skip the agent.

List it yourself, price it from nearby sales, and take offers in writing. On the homes below, owners keep $490,270 that a 5.5% agent split would take.

8 homes

Where the agent fee used to go

A typical sale still pays a listing side and a buyer side, together about 5 to 6 percent. Lotline charges neither. You still pay ordinary closing costs — title, transfer tax, your mortgage payoff — and you still owe honest disclosures.

What disappears is the person in the middle of the price. Buyers write the offer here. You accept, decline, or wait. A title company or a closing attorney, depending on your state, handles the deed.

Across 8 active homes, that fee is $490,270. On Lotline it stays with the people in the deal.

Lotline is a demo, not a brokerage and not legal advice. Disclosures and a proper closing still apply. The commission does not.