Your questions, answered
Answers, including the ones about what we don’t do.
What RealEasy® costs (nothing), how buyer's agents work when there is no commission to split, what happens between listing and closing, and where a technology platform stops.
01 · What it costs
Free to list, and free to sell.
RealEasy charges sellers and buyers no fee to list or sell. Optional items such as signs will be sold separately.
What does it cost to sell on RealEasy?
RealEasy charges sellers and buyers no fee to list or sell; optional items such as signs will be sold separately. You'll still have your own costs, such as a lawyer. The first 10 listings approved and published on RealEasy get a welcome package, including a for sale sign. Everything is on our pricing page.
Is there a fee when my sale completes?
No. RealEasy charges no fee to list or sell, so nothing is charged when your sale completes, whatever the price. RealEasy has no claim on your proceeds, and nothing is taken from your sale.
What if my home doesn't sell?
RealEasy charges no fee either way. Listing is free whether or not your home sells, and there is no exclusivity period to wait out.
Are there any other fees?
Not from RealEasy. There's no listing fee, no monthly fee, no admin fee, and no marketing fee. Optional items such as signs will be sold separately, and each will be priced before you buy. You'll have your own third-party costs — a lawyer, and whatever else you choose to spend on your sale.
What's in the welcome package?
The first 10 listings approved and published on RealEasy get a welcome package, including a for sale sign. It is sent to the address of the property you listed. The first 10 listings get one free in their welcome package; after that, signs will be available to buy.
Do I have to buy anything to sell?
No. Nothing about your sale depends on buying anything from RealEasy. Listing, offers, negotiation, and signing are free; optional items such as signs will be sold separately.
02 · Buyer's agents
No commission on your side, and no split out of it.
This is the part of a private sale worth understanding before you list. It is a trade, and it is the trade that takes the commission out of your sale.
Do I have to pay a buyer's agent?
Not by default. If a buyer chooses to be represented, that's their arrangement with their own agent, and by default they pay for it. Your sale doesn't fund a buyer-side commission, and there's no co-operating brokerage split out of your proceeds. If a buyer asks you to cover some or all of their agent's fee, that's something you negotiate with them as part of the deal. Whether to agree is up to you.
Can a buyer bring their own agent?
Yes. By default the buyer pays their own agent, and we tell buyers this plainly, before they make an offer, so it doesn't surface late in a negotiation. If a buyer asks you to cover some or all of their agent's fee, that's something you negotiate with them as part of the deal. Whether to agree is up to you.
Will agents bring buyers to my property?
Some won't, because there's no commission on your side funding them. Your listing reaches buyers through RealEasy, through search, and through a for sale sign. A sign is a common way for local buyers to find a private sale. The first 10 listings get one free in their welcome package; after that, signs will be available to buy.
Will my home be on MLS® or Realtor.ca?
No. Listing on the MLS® System and Realtor.ca requires a licensed member brokerage, and RealEasy is a technology platform, not a brokerage. Your listing is published on RealEasy, where buyers find it through the site, through search, and through a for sale sign if you put one up.
03 · The process
Listing, offers, showings, and the deposit.
The whole sequence is on the how it works page. These are the questions it raises.
How long does it take to list?
There is no set time. Before your listing publishes, you verify your identity, upload a document showing you own the property, and sign the Platform Agreement. It publishes once it passes our quality review.
How do offers work?
Buyers submit offers on RealEasy's structured offer form, assembled from the terms they enter. You see every offer in one place, and every term of each. You can counter an offer's price, deposit, possession date, conditions, and inclusions, and every round is preserved in order.
What is a Clean Final Offer?
Both sides agree on every term — price, dates, conditions, inclusions — before anyone signs. Conventionally, people sign and then work conditions out backward. This way, what gets signed is already settled.
Do I have to do my own showings?
Yes. You publish your availability, buyers book, and you host. Nobody from RealEasy attends or hosts showings.
What happens with the deposit?
Under the purchase agreement generated on RealEasy, the deposit is held in the buyer's lawyer's trust account. It never comes to RealEasy — we have no trust account and no payment processor.
04 · What RealEasy doesn't do
The decisions stay yours, because they have to.
RealEasy is a technology platform, not a brokerage and not a law firm. Here is exactly where we stop.
Can you tell me what to list my home for?
No. You set your own price. We don't generate a number for you and we don't suggest one — your home, your call.
Can you tell me whether an offer is good?
No. We'll show you every term of every offer, clearly, in one place. Whether it's a good offer is your call, or one for a professional you hire.
Do you provide legal help?
No. We're a technology platform, not a law firm, and we don't give legal advice. Consult a qualified Alberta real estate lawyer — the Law Society of Alberta maintains a public directory.
Are you a brokerage?
No. RealEasy is a technology platform, not a real estate brokerage, and we are not licensed under the Real Estate Act. We provide the website, the form, and the tools. You sell your own property and make your own decisions.
05 · Trust and the record
Everything agreed is written down as it happens.
A private sale is taken seriously when the process around it is structured. That is most of what this platform is.
Do buyers take private sales seriously?
Every buyer on the platform is identity-verified before they can submit an offer, offers come through on a structured form where every term is explicit, and every round of negotiation is permanently recorded. Buyers see a structured process, not a handshake.
What if there's a dispute about what was agreed?
You have the record. Every offer, counter, and revision is written to an append-only history enforced by the database itself. Every round and its outcome is hash-chained to the change before it, and each stage's terms are captured in a write-once snapshot with a cryptographic hash. Alter the record after the fact and verifying the chain shows it.
How long do you keep my records?
A minimum of seven years, and in practice indefinitely for legally significant records.
Didn’t find your question?
Ask us directly. We’ll answer what we can — and tell you plainly when the answer is one for your own lawyer.
Ready to list? It costs nothing.
Listing is free, selling is free, and the first 10 listings get a welcome package with a for sale sign.