The Partner Standard
You keep the client.
Here is your number, in writing, on a public page. No form to see the terms.
percentage to be published
Paid from the buyer’s premium — not deducted from your seller’s proceeds.
A published percentage
Stated on this website, paid from the buyer’s premium — not from the seller’s proceeds.
You keep your client
The relationship, the listing and the next transaction stay with the agent.
One page, one time
Register the client once. No auction-day attendance requirement.
A written-bid bonus
A higher fee for bringing a written pre-auction opening bid; a standard fee for a bid on the day.
Why this exists
The two things that actually stop agents.
It isn’t scepticism about auction. Ask agents who have refused to refer one and the answer is almost always the same two things: they don’t know what they’ll be paid, and the process is full of traps — registration forms due the day before, mandatory auction-day attendance, fees payable “if any.”
So the fee is a published percentage rather than a conversation, the registration is one page you fill in once, and there is no attendance requirement. Across every national land and estate auction firm we could audit, not one publishes a guaranteed cooperating fee. The national listing-side average is 2.88% (Clever · Feb 2026 (n=533 agents)).
The written bid
Bring an opening bid, earn a higher fee.
An auction’s hardest problem is the cold start: the first bid. An agent who brings a qualified buyer with a written pre-auction opening bid solves it, and is paid more for doing so than an agent whose buyer bids on the day. Both are paid. One is paid better, because one did something harder.
Register a client