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Price fixing has sent Realtor commissions soaring in an already hot market, lawsuit alleges
Much of the discussion about Canada’s real estate market has been dominated by the meteoric rise in the cost of housing.
But what’s often missing from that conversation is the parallel increase in what Canadians pay in real estate commissions nearly every time a home is bought or sold.
Commission structures vary across the country, but typically real estate agents and their brokerage charge a percentage-based commission on
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