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title: "144 Waverly Place: $8,240,000 in 2025, $16,995,000 Now"
description: "144 Waverly Place asks $16,995,000 nineteen months after selling for $8,240,000. The deeds, the debt, the capped tax bill and what a buyer should pay."
url: "https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/guides/144-waverly-place-west-village-townhouse-buyer-analysis"
source: "Real Estate Rebate Team"
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Real Estate Rebate Team


Licensed Broker NY & NJ · License: 10491211335


## Three numbers, and only one of them is in the listing


Chateau Waverly came to market on 11 August 2026 at $16,995,000. It is a 22-foot-wide house on the corner where Gay Street runs into Waverly Place, four finished apartments over five levels, and the marketing is very good indeed.

Here are the two numbers it leaves out. The same house sold on 30 January 2025 for $8,240,000. And the City of New York currently values it at $6,569,000.

Neither figure is hidden. The deed is in ACRIS, the valuation is in the Department of Finance assessment file, and both took about ten minutes to pull. Neither appears on any portal page for this address, because portals publish inventory and the inventory is the asking price. What follows is the rest of the record: who has owned the house, what they paid, what they borrowed, what the City thinks it is worth and what the buyer's cash actually looks like at $16,995,000.

_**Source:** asking price and listing date from the REBNY RLS feed, listing RLS20108787, retrieved 12 August 2026. Sale price from NYC ACRIS document 2025013100686001. Market value from NYC DOF file 8y4t-faws, fiscal year 2027 final roll._


### The listing as it stands today

#### 144 WAVERLY Place, New York, NY 10014
Price$16,995,000
Space9 beds, 10 baths
NeighborhoodWest Village
BoroughManhattan


[View 144 Waverly Place](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/buy/newyorkcity/manhattan/10014/144-waverly-place-ny-10014)


Courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC


- Recorded deed
### Sold for $9,000,000 out of a family trust
The seller was the Luther S. Travis Living Trust, with the trustees listed at 144 Waverly Place itself. A resident owner's estate, in other words, and the kind of sale that usually prices honestly. The buyer was 144 WP LLC, of 332 Bleecker Street.**When:** November 10, 2014
- Recorded deed
### Sold for $9,200,000 to a developer
The buyer was MF Townhouse LLC of 390 Park Avenue. The mortgage documents filed against the house name the borrower as MF Townhouse LLC care of RFR Holding, and list Michael Fuchs personally as a party. This was not an amateur.**When:** April 25, 2019
- Recorded deedImportant
### Sold for $8,240,000, a loss for the developer
MF Townhouse LLC sold to Chateau Waverly Estates LLC of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for $8,240,000. That is $960,000 below what the same party paid in 2019 and $760,000 below the 2014 price, before any transfer tax, carrying cost or brokerage. Six years of ownership by a professional developer produced a 10.4 percent loss on the price alone.**When:** January 30, 2025
- Recorded mortgage
### $6,600,000 recorded against the house at closing
The lender is Rosenthal & Rosenthal, a New York finance company rather than a residential bank, and the filing is accompanied by an assignment of leases and rents in the same amount. The seller's existing bank mortgage was assigned across on the same day rather than satisfied.**When:** January 30, 2025
- Recorded mortgageImportant
### A further $1,800,000 drawn from the same lender
Recorded principal now stands at $8,400,000 against a house bought for $8,240,000. The debt on the property is 101.9 percent of what was paid for it, and the second advance lands squarely in the middle of the renovation the listing describes.**When:** December 19, 2025
- Listed for saleImportant
### Back on the market at $16,995,000
Nineteen months and one gut renovation after the purchase, the ask is $8,755,000 above the last recorded price. Brown Harris Stevens has the listing.**When:** August 11, 2026

Timeline of recorded transfers and mortgages at 144 Waverly Place from November 2014 to August 2026.

Two owners in a row have sold this house for less than they hoped, and one of them was a professional. The current ask is 106.3 percent above the last recorded price, set nineteen months ago.


Across a decade of real transactions this house has moved between $1,343 and $1,500 a foot. The ask is $2,770 on the same measurement, which is 84.7 percent above the highest price the house has ever actually achieved.

Data table representing What the house has actually traded forEvent
Date
Price
Per SF
Buyer
Recorded deed
10 Nov 2014
$9,000,000
$1,467
144 WP LLC
Recorded deed
25 Apr 2019
$9,200,000
$1,500
MF Townhouse LLC
Recorded deed
30 Jan 2025
$8,240,000
$1,343
Chateau Waverly Estates LLC
Asking price
11 Aug 2026
$16,995,000
$2,770
Open


Four rows comparing three recorded deeds from 2014, 2019 and 2025 against the August 2026 asking price.


### The corner is the part nobody can renovate in
[View full size](https://realestaterebatesnewyork-bucket.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/f7c3371d-7583-4994-85f3-37cb71acdc47.jpg)
The Waverly Place and Gay Street sign sits on the building's own corner. Listing image courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC through REBNY RLS.

I want to be fair to the house before I take the price apart, because the good part of this listing is genuinely good and it is not the renovation. It is the corner. The building sits where Gay Street bends into Waverly Place, which gives it a long open view north up one of the few streets in Manhattan that photographs like a film set, plus a south-facing garden at the back. Twenty-two feet of frontage on a 2,231 square foot lot inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Nobody is building another one.

That is worth a premium and I would pay one. The question this article is about is how big the premium should be, and whether the last nineteen months of work justify the number on the listing. Those are different questions and the second one has an answer in the public record.


## This house has been offered three times, and cut every time


The January 2025 sale did not happen at the first price. Our feed records the campaign opening at $8,925,000 and closing at $8,240,000, a cut of 7.7 percent. Zillow's history for the address carries an earlier rung at $10,450,000, and Leslie Garfield, who marketed the house before that at a stated 6,300 square feet, published it at $11,500,000.

So the ladder down to the last sale ran roughly $11,500,000, then $10,450,000, then $8,925,000, then a close at $8,240,000. That is a 28.3 percent decline from the top ask to the cheque, spread over more than one campaign and more than one brokerage. Note that our own records hold only the last rung of that, which is a good reason to ask a listing agent what a property was previously asking rather than trusting any single feed.

What it tells a buyer is simple. This is not a house that has ever cleared quickly at a punchy number. Twice now the market has looked at it and said no at prices well under the current one.

_**Source:** opening and closing asking prices from our RLS mirror of the 2024 to 2025 campaign. The $10,450,000 and $11,500,000 rungs from Zillow's published price history and Leslie Garfield's property page for 144 Waverly Place, both retrieved 12 August 2026. Neither intermediate figure appears in the RLS record, so the campaign is only visible by reading more than one source._


At $2,428 a foot on its own marketed area, 144 Waverly Place asks 16.6 percent more per foot than the next multi-family house in the West Village. Measured on the City's 6,135 square feet instead, it asks $2,770, which is 33 percent more.


Horizontal bar chart of asking price per square foot for five West Village multi-family townhouses, ranging from $1,480 to $2,428.Detailed structured table for the chart: Against the other West Village multi-family houses, it is the dearest per footCategoryAsking price per marketed square foot144 Waverly Pl$2,42856 Charles St$2,083258 W 12th St$1,934681 Greenwich St$1,57415 Gay St$1,480


144 Waverly Place carries the largest annual tax bill of any West Village house on this list except 681 Greenwich Street, including 90 Charles Street, which asks $3,005,000 more and pays $47,868 less. That is the difference between tax class 1 and tax class 2A, and it follows the number of apartments, not the price.

Data table representing The comparison the marketing invites, and the one it avoidsHouse
Type
Ask
Area
Per SF
Tax/yr
144 Waverly Pl
Multi-family
$16,995,000
7,000SF
$2,428
$86,256
56 Charles St
Multi-family
$12,500,000
6,000SF
$2,083
$64,908
258 W 12th St
Multi-family
$10,000,000
5,170SF
$1,934
$37,632
681 Greenwich St
Multi-family
$8,000,000
5,081SF
$1,574
$92,700
90 Charles St
Single family
$20,000,000
5,254SF
$3,807
$38,388
238 W 11th St
Single family
$15,000,000
5,344SF
$2,807
$65,114
48 Jane St
Single family
$14,999,000
4,128SF
$3,633
$47,616


Seven West Village townhouses compared on type, asking price, area, price per square foot and annual property tax.

- ### Today's listing
7,000 SFDo not use this valueThe figure in the current Brown Harris Stevens listing, described as approximately 7,000 square feet across five levels. It produces the $2,428 per foot the portals are all quoting.Approximate, and 14.1 percent above the City's measurement.
- ### The 2025 marketing
6,300 SFWhat the same house was marketed at when it sold nineteen months ago, and the figure carried in our own record of that sale. The prior brochure states 6,300 square feet plus 1,000 square feet of garden.Same building, same footprint, 700 fewer feet.
- ### The City's record
6,135 SFUse this valueGross and residential building area on the Department of Finance file, against a 22-foot frontage and a 58-foot building depth on a 2,231 square foot lot. This is the measurement the tax bill is computed against.$2,770 per foot at the asking price.
- ### What to do about it
Ask for the surveyResultRun your per-foot maths on 6,135 and ask the listing agent for the measured floor plan behind the 7,000. If the extra area is cellar or garden it is real space but it is not worth $2,428 a foot, and the difference is bigger than most negotiations on a house at this price.The gap to the City's figure is 865 square feet, or $2,100,220 at $2,428.

Three stated interior areas for 144 Waverly Place: 7,000, 6,300 and 6,135 square feet, with guidance on which to use.

Between the January 2025 sale and the August 2026 relisting the house gained 700 marketed square feet, 11.1 percent, while the City's measurement did not move. At the asking price those 700 feet carry $1,699,600.


### Four kitchens is the fact that decides the tax bill
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Garden and second floors form the owner's duplex; the third, fourth and fifth floors are separate floor-through apartments, each with its own kitchen. Floor plan courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC through REBNY RLS.

The plan settles two arguments at once. First, the house does run over five levels, which is worth saying because StreetEasy, Corcoran and the City all describe it as four storeys. Second, and more expensively, there are four kitchens in it.

That second fact is not decoration. New York taxes a one, two or three family house in tax class 1 and a building of four to ten apartments in tax class 2A, and the two classes are assessed and capped on entirely different terms. 144 Waverly Place is a class 2A property because of the fourth kitchen, and that is why it pays $86,256 a year while 90 Charles Street asks $20,000,000 and pays $38,388.

The listing is quite open about the flexibility here, and it floats the idea of a future single-family house. Keep the thought. It comes back later in this article, and it turns out to cut both ways.


## The income is the argument for the price, so read the income carefully


The case for $16,995,000 is not really about square feet, and the listing knows it. The case is that this is a finished, leased, free-market income asset. The remarks put the fully leased figure at approximately $1.092 million of annual gross rent, which is over $200 per rentable residential square foot.

The arithmetic reconciles exactly, and it is worth doing because of what it exposes. Two units are described as leased at their full asking rents, producing $407,880 of annualised contracted income, or $33,990 a month between them. The garden duplex is described as now offered at $39,995 a month. The terrace residence is described as projected at $16,995 a month. Add those and you get $90,980 a month, or $1,091,760 a year.

So the projection is honest arithmetic. But only $407,880 of it is contracted. The other $683,880, which is 62.6 percent of the total, is two apartments that were not leased when the house came to market. The bigger of the two is the garden duplex, which alone is 44 percent of the projected income and which the listing itself says is being _offered_ at $39,995 a month. Offered is not leased.

The difference matters more than it usually would, because a buyer paying for yield is paying a multiple of it. On contracted rent alone, $407,880 against $16,995,000 is a 2.40 percent gross yield. On the full projection it is 6.42 percent. Those are two completely different investments and the gap between them turns on whether one apartment lets at $39,995 a month.


Take the $86,256 tax bill off the top and the contracted position falls to a 1.89 percent net-of-tax gross yield, before insurance, management, repairs, water, heat or a single vacant month. The pricing rests on the two apartments that have no tenant in them.

Data table representing Contracted rent against projected rentLine
Status
Monthly
Annual
Gross yield
Two leased apartments
Contracted
$33,990
$407,880
2.40%
Garden duplex
Offered, not leased
$39,995
$479,940
2.82%
Terrace residence
Projected
$16,995
$203,940
1.20%
Fully leased projection
37.4% contracted
$90,980
$1,091,760
6.42%


Four rows separating contracted rent from projected rent at 144 Waverly Place, with gross yields against the asking price.


### Finished, with the countertops still leaning against the island
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The second-floor kitchen and the glass sunroom over the garden, in the listing's own photograph. Listing image courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC through REBNY RLS.

The listing says a buyer can step directly into a finished asset. This is the listing's own photograph of the owner's duplex kitchen, and there are stone slabs propped against the island and protective covering still on the sunroom glazing.

I am not making a scandal out of it. Marketing photography gets shot when the schedule says so, and a house of this size is rarely spotless on the day. But if you are being asked to pay a premium for completion rather than potential, completion is the thing to inspect. Ask what remains open, ask for the sign-offs, and ask specifically whether the Department of Buildings work on this address is closed out. A gut renovation of a four-apartment house in a historic district touches Landmarks as well, and an open permit is a real number on a closing statement, not a detail.


The bill is computed on $693,368, not on $2,956,050. At the 12.44 percent rate implied by the listing's own $86,256 figure, assessing this house on its actual value would cost $367,737 a year. The cap is worth $281,481 annually, and class 2A caps allow the billable figure to rise by up to 8 percent a year and 30 percent over five years until it catches up.

Data table representing What the City thinks the house is worth, and why the tax bill is a bargain that expiresFiscal year
Market value
Actual AV
Billable AV
2022-23
$5,150,000
$2,317,500
$576,027
2023-24
$4,823,000
$2,170,350
$622,081
2024-25
$5,192,000
$2,336,400
$671,844
2025-26
$6,230,000
$2,803,500
$693,368
2026-27
$6,569,000
$2,956,050
$693,368


Five fiscal years of Department of Finance market value, actual assessed value and billable assessed value for 144 Waverly Place.


## The fourth apartment currently keeps this house out of the second-home tax


New York's non-primary residence surcharge took effect on 1 July 2026, and it reaches four kinds of property: one to three family homes, condominium units in tax class 2, condominium units in tax class 1, and co-operative apartments. A four-apartment building in tax class 2A is not on that list.

Which means that as things stand, a buyer who does not make this house their primary residence appears to fall outside the surcharge, and the reason is the fourth kitchen. Run the same property through the one-to-three-family schedule at its Department of Finance market value of $6,569,000 and it lands in the first band at 0.8 percent, which is $52,552 a year.

Now put that next to the single-family conversion the listing describes as an opportunity. Combining apartments to take the house to three units or fewer would move it toward tax class 1, which is the class the surcharge covers. I am not going to tell you how the Department of Finance would reclassify this specific building or on what timetable, because that is a question for your attorney and DOF, not for our data. What I will say is that nobody selling you a conversion is going to raise it, and it is worth $52,552 a year on today's valuation to a buyer who is not living here full time.

Worth knowing either way: the surcharge is assessed on the Department of Finance market value and not on what you pay, primary-residence status is fixed on 5 January each year with no part-year proration, and the whole regime is scheduled to sunset on 30 June 2031.

_**Source:** covered property types, thresholds and rates from our second-home tax engine, which encodes the DOF rate table and the REBNY Second-Home Annual Tax FAQ of 29 July 2026. The $52,552 figure is what that engine returns for a one-to-three-family property at a $6,569,000 market value in phase 1, and is shown here as a comparison, not as a bill this property currently receives._


What would you actually do with 144 Waverly Place after closing?
- ### Live in the garden duplex, rent the rest
Take the three-bedroom garden and second-floor duplex with the sunroom and the garden, and keep the three floor-through apartments above as income.Potential exemptionThe strongest version, and the cheapest to carryYou lose the $479,940 of projected garden-duplex rent, which is the least certain line in the projection anyway, and you keep the $407,880 that is contracted. Primary-residence status also puts the second-home surcharge question aside entirely. The building stays in tax class 2A on its capped bill.[How the Buyer Advantage works](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/buyer-advantage)
- ### Buy it purely as an income asset
Lease all four apartments at the projected rents and hold the building for the yield the listing describes.Potential exposureYou are underwriting $683,880 of rent that does not exist yet62.6 percent of the projected income is uncontracted, and the largest single line is a $39,995 a month apartment that had not let when the house came to market. Price the building on the $407,880 that is signed, then decide what you will pay for the rest. Also note that the capped tax bill rises toward the uncapped one every year you hold it.[See the tax record above](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/guides/nyc-second-home-tax)
- ### Convert it back to one grand house
Combine the apartments over time into the single-family residence the marketing suggests the width and scale allow.Review requiredCheck the tax class before you take out the fourth kitchenA conversion to three units or fewer changes which class the property sits in, and tax class 1 is the class the non-primary residence surcharge covers. There is also no income during the works and no certainty on Landmarks approvals in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Get an opinion in writing before you price this route.[Read the second-home tax guide](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/guides/nyc-second-home-tax)

Three ways of using 144 Waverly Place after purchase and what each implies for tax, income and price.

The price only works on one of these three, and it is the one that depends on two unsigned leases.


The asking price sits $1,995,000 above the $15,000,000 mansion tax line, where the rate steps from 3.25 percent to 3.5 percent on the whole price. Negotiating to $14,999,999 saves $1,995,001 of price and a further $107,325 of tax, so every dollar of that last band is worth $1.05 to the buyer.

Data table representing What a buyer actually writes cheques for at $16,995,000Item
Basis
Amount
Mansion tax
3.5% of the whole price
$594,825
Property tax, year one
DOF billable AV of $693,368
$86,256
Buyer Advantage, back to you
Half of a 3% commission
$254,925
Mansion tax net of the Advantage
$594,825 less $254,925
$339,900


Buyer-side closing costs at a $16,995,000 purchase price, including mansion tax, property tax and the Buyer Advantage.


### The part of the house I would actually be buying
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The garden floor opening onto the south-facing garden at the rear. Listing image courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC through REBNY RLS.

Strip out the rent roll and the projections and what is left is this: a wide garden duplex with a proper lawn behind it and a glass room between the two, on a corner nobody can replicate, in a historic district that will not permit anything to be built next to it. That is a real thing to own and it is why somebody will buy this house.

It is also, on the listing's own numbers, the part of the building generating no income today.


## What I would do


I like the house. I do not like the number, and the reason is not that $16,995,000 is a lot of money for a West Village townhouse. It is that the record here is unusually complete and it does not support the jump.

Look at what we can actually check. A developer with a professional operation bought this house in 2019 at $9,200,000 and sold it in 2025 at $8,240,000. The campaign that ended in that sale started around $11,500,000 and came down in stages. The current owner has $8,400,000 of recorded debt against it from a finance company rather than a bank, which is bridge pricing and bridge pricing has a clock on it. Nineteen months later the ask is $8,755,000 above the last cheque. The renovation is real and the finishes are good, but a gut renovation of 6,135 square feet does not cost $8.7 million, and the market has twice declined to pay anything close to this for the building.

So here is the sequence I would run.
- Ask for the measured floor plan behind the 7,000 square feet, and price on 6,135 until you see it. That single question is worth up to $2,100,220 of the ask.
- Ask for the two executed leases, their end dates and the rent ledger. Until you have them, $407,880 is a claim rather than income, and the $683,880 above it is a forecast either way.
- Ask how long the garden duplex has been on the rental market at $39,995 and what the traffic has been. It is 44 percent of the projected income and it is the number the whole valuation leans on.
- Ask for the Department of Buildings and Landmarks sign-offs, and check whether anything is still open. The photographs show work that was not finished on the day they were taken.
- Budget the tax bill going up. $86,256 is a capped figure sitting on an assessment 4.3 times larger, and the cap unwinds by up to 30 percent every five years regardless of who owns the house.
- Negotiate through $15,000,000 if you can get there. The band change is worth $107,325 on its own, on top of the price.


My own view, and it is a view rather than a valuation: on the West Village multi-family evidence this house belongs in the $11 million to $13 million range as it stands, with the top of that only if all four apartments are genuinely leased and the square footage survives a survey. That is still a very large premium over what the seller paid, and it would still be a good outcome for them.

If you are looking at this house, come to me before you register with the listing agent, because that decision is worth real money to you. On a purchase at the asking price the Buyer Advantage is $254,925, which is half of an assumed 3 percent buyer-broker commission and is a ceiling rather than a promise, since the commission is the seller's to offer. It is also more than double what the mansion tax band change is worth, and it is the one line on the closing statement that moves in your favour.


## Read next


[445 West 44th Street: a renovated 20-foot-wide townhouse at $6.5 million](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/guides/445-west-44th-street-hells-kitchen-townhouse-65-million), for the same analysis run on a single-family house rather than a multi-family one.

[The West Village neighborhood advisory and market dossier](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/neighborhoods/new-york-city/manhattan/west-village), for recorded sales evidence across the submarket.

[The NYC second-home tax guide](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/guides/nyc-second-home-tax), for how the non-primary residence surcharge is assessed and who it reaches.

[The mansion tax calculator](https://realestaterebatesnewyork.com/calculators/nyc-mansion-tax-calculator), to run the band change at your own number.


## Frequently Asked Questions
Why are townhouses harder to sell than apartments?+
Because every one is different, so there is no cohort to price against. An apartment can be compared to the line above it and the line below it in the same building. A townhouse is compared to houses on other blocks, of other widths, with other tax classes and other renovation histories, and the buyer pool for a $17 million house is a few dozen people rather than a few thousand. That is why 144 Waverly Place has taken multiple campaigns and multiple price cuts to sell twice in a row, and why the recorded deed history matters more here than it would on a condominium.

What did 144 Waverly Place last sell for?+
$8,240,000, on 30 January 2025, recorded in ACRIS as a deed at a 100 percent transfer. The seller was MF Townhouse LLC, whose mortgage filings name RFR Holding and Michael Fuchs, and who had paid $9,200,000 for the house in April 2019. Before that it sold for $9,000,000 in November 2014 out of the Luther S. Travis Living Trust. The current asking price of $16,995,000 is 106.3 percent above the January 2025 price.

Is 144 Waverly Place 7,000 square feet?+
The current listing says approximately 7,000 square feet. The Department of Finance records 6,135 square feet of gross and residential building area on a 22-foot-wide building 58 feet deep, and the same house was marketed at 6,300 square feet when it sold in January 2025. Nothing has been added; PLUTO shows no altered-building year. Ask for the measured plan, because the 865 square foot difference between 7,000 and 6,135 is worth $2,100,220 at the asking price per foot.

Why is the property tax only $86,256 on a $16,995,000 house?+
Because 144 Waverly Place is a four-apartment building in tax class 2A, where assessed value increases are capped at 8 percent a year and 30 percent over five years. The Department of Finance puts the market value at $6,569,000 and the actual assessed value at $2,956,050, but the bill is computed on a billable assessed value of $693,368. Assessed on the full figure the bill would be about $367,737. The cap does not reset on a sale, but it does keep unwinding, so a buyer should budget for the bill rising every year they own it.

Does the NYC second-home tax apply to 144 Waverly Place?+
As the property is currently classified, it appears not to. The non-primary residence surcharge covers one to three family homes, tax class 1 and tax class 2 condominium units, and co-operative apartments. This is a four-unit tax class 2A building, which is not among them. For comparison, the one-to-three-family schedule applied to its $6,569,000 Department of Finance market value would produce $52,552 a year. That is worth knowing if you plan to combine apartments, because a conversion to three units or fewer changes the classification. Confirm any of this with your attorney and with DOF before relying on it.

How much is the Buyer Advantage on 144 Waverly Place?+
At the $16,995,000 asking price the illustrative figure is $254,925. That is half of an assumed 3 percent buyer-broker commission, which is the rule we work to: we share half of the commission we actually receive on the transaction. The commission itself is offered by the seller and is not ours to guarantee, so treat 1.5 percent as a ceiling rather than a fixed rate, and the amount moves with whatever price you negotiate.


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