not always true /, granted there are plenty of bad agents out there…
if you do the actual math of what an agent will make by increasing the price by 5,000 (less than 100 pre-tax) that small amount it’s not worth losing your license. By law, once under in a business relationship where you are representing a buyer, the buyer’s best interests must come before the agents. If anything they are banking off of their experience to try to either make a deal, or keep the deal together.
agreed, it’s you money only spend what you are comfortable spending… a buyer needs to use their own judgement, however a good agent should be able to prepare a Comparative Market Anaylsis to back-up or justify the price… and a mortgage company won’t fund a deal if the house doesn’t appraise for the value…