Estate-agent commission is charged as a percentage of the sale price. In much of Germany that is around 3.57% for the seller side. It sounds small — until you turn it into euros.
Here is the uncomfortable part: the work an agent does on a €600,000 flat is not double the work on a €300,000 flat — but the bill is. Commission scales with your price, not with the effort. You are effectively paying a percentage of your own equity for a largely fixed set of tasks: photos, a description, a listing, viewings, some coordination.
Strip the percentage away and the deliverables are concrete and repeatable:
All of that can be delivered at a fixed price — independent of whether your property sells for €300,000 or €600,000.
That is the whole idea behind Verkaufen ohne Makler. You get the same professional support — from launch-ready materials to full on-site handling — for a transparent fixed price instead of a five-figure percentage. On a €400,000 sale, the difference between roughly €14,280 and a fixed fee is money that stays in your pocket.
Take your realistic sale price, multiply by 0.0357, and look at the figure. Then decide whether that sum is better in a commission invoice or in your account. Our calculator helps you pin down that realistic price first.
Saving the commission is not about cutting corners — it is about refusing to pay a percentage for a fixed job. See the fixed-price packages and keep your tens of thousands.