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Advertising fees and office expenses may further reduce that amount. A top selling real estate agent on the other hand may be able to keep the entire real estate commission and simply pay a broker's desk fee. In between, there can be many other different arrangements depending on the real estate agent and the broker. When a seller and a real estate agent signs a listing agreement, the broker is typically the only one who can market the property in question. For the work of pulling in the buyers, the property seller pays the broker a real estate commission.