DiscountAgent.com Blog • Buyer Success Story

SOLD — Buyer Represented

Our buyer purchased a nearly-new 4-bedroom two-story home on a corner lot in Eagle Mountain’s Silverlake community using a conventional loan — and received approximately $7,500 back at closing through DiscountAgent.com’s 50% buyer commission rebate.

By Aaron Peters, Licensed Utah Real Estate Broker  |  Published August 2026  |  Eagle Mountain, UT 84005

Property Details

4819 E Breezy Patch Rd, Eagle Mountain, UT 84005

Silverlake  •  Utah County

4

Bedrooms

2.5

Bathrooms

3,041

Total Sq Ft

2021

Year Built

Buyer Commission Rebate

Approximately $7,500

Cash back at closing…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Seller Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 12 min read

“Sure, I’d save $10,000 on commission. But what if the house sells for $20,000 less?”

This is the objection that actually stops Utah sellers — not doubts about service, but the fear that a cheaper listing agent produces a cheaper sale. It is a reasonable worry. If it were true, the savings would be an illusion.

So rather than assert an answer, this article looks at what the research found, where the concern turns out to be legitimate, and three of my own recent Utah closings — including the one that took fifty days and closed under asking.

One finding runs against my…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Buyer & Seller Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 12 min read

The Short Answer

In most Utah home sales, the seller still pays both agents — but it is now a choice, not a default.

The money comes out of the seller’s proceeds at closing, split between the two brokerages, and the buyer rarely writes a check for it. What changed in August 2024 is that the seller’s contribution to the buyer’s agent is negotiated case by case instead of published in the MLS. And the buyer now signs an agreement stating what their agent is owed — which means they see the number for the first time.

This is the most confused question…

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2568 S Palomino Dr Saratoga Springs Utah Low commission realtor

DiscountAgent.com Blog • Seller Success Story

SOLD — Seller Represented

Under contract in 16 days with zero seller concessions — and the seller kept approximately $9,750 more of their equity with a 1.5% listing commission instead of the traditional 3%.

By Aaron Peters, Broker/Owner  |  Published August 2026  |  Saratoga Springs, UT 84045

Property Details

2568 S Palomino Dr, Saratoga Springs, UT 84045

Summerhill Phase 4  •  Utah County  •  2-Story  •  No HOA

Beds / Baths

5 / 3.5

Sq Ft

2,950

Year Built

2011

Days on Market

16

Listing Commission Savings

~$9,750

kept at closing vs. a 3% listing commission

Utah non-disclosure notice:…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Seller Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 13 min read

This is the single most common question I get from Utah sellers now: “Do I still have to pay the buyer’s agent?”

The short answer is no. You have never been legally required to, and since the 2024 NAR settlement it is explicitly negotiable and can no longer be published in the MLS. Any compensation you offer has to be communicated outside the MLS.

The useful answer is more complicated, and it contains a trap. Sellers who reflexively offer zero often end up paying more than sellers who set a number up front — and some lose qualified buyers entirely without ever knowing it…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Commission Savings

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • Bluffdale, Utah • 9 min read

The median home in Bluffdale, Utah sells for roughly $555,000. At the average Utah commission of 5.71%, that’s about $31,700 in agent fees. Bluffdale sits at the Point of the Mountain — the southernmost city in Salt Lake County, minutes from the Silicon Slopes tech corridor in Lehi and ten minutes from Draper. It is also one of the fastest-growing cities in the state, with a population that has more than doubled since 2010. A full-service discount broker saves you $8,325–$11,100 on the listing side with the same MLS exposure, professional photography, and…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Seller Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 13 min read

You refinanced into a 2.9% mortgage in 2021. Your family has outgrown the house. And every time you run the numbers on moving, the payment increase stops you cold.

You are not imagining it, and you are not alone. Surveys published in 2026 found that more than a third of homeowners with a rate under 6% say they would not give it up under any circumstances, and roughly 47% say they simply could not afford today’s borrowing costs. More than 40% say rates would have to fall below 4% before they would even consider selling.

This article runs the actual math on four Utah…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Buyer Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 12 min read • Educational content, not financial advice

You just received roughly $8,000 back at closing. You have three realistic options, and the gap between the best and worst outcome is over a quarter of a million dollars.

We previously worked through using a rebate to buy down your mortgage rate. A reader asked the obvious follow-up: what if you invested it in an S&P 500 index fund instead?

So we ran all three scenarios. The answer is genuinely surprising, and one finding complicates the case we made in that earlier article. We are publishing it anyway, because a comparison that…

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DiscountAgent.com Blog • Buyer Education

By Aaron Peters • Broker / Owner, DiscountAgent.com • August 2026

Updated: August 2026 • 10 min read

If you are moving to Utah from Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, or Tennessee, there is a way to save money on your home purchase that was illegal where you came from.

It is called a buyer commission rebate. Your agent’s brokerage returns a share of the commission it earns directly to you at closing. In Utah, DiscountAgent.com rebates 50% — on a median-priced Salt Lake County home, roughly $8,000 back in your pocket.

In nine states, a broker who offered you that money could face disciplinary action for it. The U.S. Department…

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SOLD Northshore townhome in Saratoga Springs, Utah — 3-bedroom sold with a 1.5% listing commission

DiscountAgent.com Blog • Seller Success Story

SOLD — Seller Represented

A Saratoga Springs seller kept approximately $6,000 more of their equity by listing at a 1.5% commission instead of the traditional 3% — on a resort-amenity townhome in one of Utah County’s fastest-growing communities.

By Aaron Peters, Broker/Owner  |  Published August 2026  |  Saratoga Springs, UT 84045

Property Details

368 N Masthead Ct, Saratoga Springs, UT 84045

Northshore  •  Utah County  •  2-Story Townhome

Beds / Baths

3 / 2.5

Sq Ft

2,207

Year Built

2021

Garage

2-Car

Listing Commission Savings

~$6,000

kept at closing vs. a 3% listing commission

Utah…

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