istock-fannie-mae1According to the Fannie Mae Announcement 09-03, effective March 1, 2009, closing of  preforeclosure sales may not be conditioned upon a reduction of the total commission to be paid to real estate agents to a level below what was negotiated by the listing agent with the borrower, unless the fee exceeds 6%.

This is great news–no more guessing what your commission will be and no doubt this will have a positive impact on the short sale market!  I know that some agents would rather have impacted wisdom teeth removed without anesthetic than submit an offer on a short sale and  after hearing about some of the horror stories, I can’t say that I blame them. However taking into consideration my earlier blog  “how to navigate the short sale offer” and asking one more important question, has  a BPO been done by the bank, I think short sales can be accomplished with less headache than ever before.