Realtors in Redmond: What Hiring One Costs
A Redmond listing at the $1,324,279 median carries a $78,132 commission at Washington's average rate. Here is the flat-fee math and when to pay more.
Realtors in Redmond, WA
Redmond gets described as a suburb of Bellevue, which undersells what it costs to sell a house here. The median sale price is $1,324,279 (Redfin, three months ending June 2026). At Washington's measured average total commission of 5.90%, the seller of a median Redmond home writes a check for $78,132 in commission. That is not suburban pricing. That is a Bellevue-sized fee on a house most people would call a family home in a good school district.
So when someone searches for realtors in Redmond, the useful answer is not a list of names. It is the arithmetic on that $78,132, and what portion of it is actually buying something.
Where the $78,132 goes
Commission in Washington splits roughly 2.75% to the listing side and the remainder to the buyer's agent. Those are two separate decisions that most sellers experience as one number. Here is what happens when you separate them.
| Option | Listing side | Buyer's agent | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional at 5.90% | $36,418 (2.75%) | $41,714 (3.15%) | $78,132 |
| Wayber Basic ($249 + $500 at closing) | $749 | $33,107 (2.5%) | $33,856 |
| Wayber Full Service ($395 + $4,600 at closing) | $4,995 | $33,107 (2.5%) | $38,102 |
| Wayber Premium ($2,500 + $9,500 at closing) | $12,000 | $33,107 (2.5%) | $45,107 |
The buyer's agent line is worth sitting with. It is a real cost, you pay it as the seller, and no flat-fee brokerage removes it. What changed is that since the 2024 NAR settlement, buyer agent compensation is negotiated rather than published through the MLS, so 2 to 2.5% is a convention and not a rule. On a $1.3M sale, a quarter point is roughly $3,300. That is a conversation worth having regardless of who lists your home.
What Redmond's market does to the calculation
Redmond sits in King County and lists through the NWMLS, the MLS that covers the entire Puget Sound region and feeds Zillow, Redfin and every agent search on the Eastside. Median days on market is 14 (Redfin, three months ending June 2026), a couple of days slower than Bellevue and Seattle but still fast by any national standard.
Two weeks is enough time for a listing to get a proper first weekend and a second look, and not much more. What that pace does to your decision is simple: the marketing window is short, so front-loading quality matters more than a long campaign. It also means the calendar length of your relationship with a listing agent is measured in weeks, not months, which is a strange thing to price at $36,418.
The demand side here is heavily tech-employed, and that shapes buyer behavior in ways that are worth knowing. Buyers arrive pre-approved and often relocating, they search online first and in person second, and they are comfortable evaluating a property from a 3D tour before booking a flight or a Saturday. They are also, frequently, negotiating with equity or RSU-based finances that make their offers structurally different from a standard conforming purchase. None of that changes what a commission costs. It does change what the listing side needs to do well.
Basic, Full Service, or Premium
Wayber Basic at $749 puts your home on the NWMLS under a licensed Washington brokerage. That is the part requiring a license, and it is the part that gets you in front of every buyer's agent in the county. If you already have a buyer, are selling to a tenant or relative, or have done this before and are comfortable running showings and reading offers, Basic is the whole job.
Full Service at $4,995 adds professional photography, a 3D tour, open houses, offer management and negotiation. Given how much of Redmond's buyer pool is shopping remotely or on a compressed relocation timeline, the photography and 3D tour are doing more than decoration here. They are often the entire first showing. And offer management earns its keep when you receive several offers in a fast market and need to compare financing quality, contingency exposure and closing timelines rather than just top-line price.
Premium at $12,000 exists for sellers who want the heaviest hands-on involvement. Even at that tier, the total against a 2.5% buyer's agent commission comes in $33,025 under traditional at the local median.
When a full-commission agent is genuinely better
This is not a case where one answer fits everyone. If your Redmond property is unusual, a larger acreage parcel, a home needing significant work, or something that will take real effort to position, an experienced local agent working a percentage may recover more than the fee difference in final price. If you are handling an estate, a trust sale, or a relocation with a corporate buyout program layered on top, the procedural help is worth paying for. And if you simply do not want to think about the sale at all, that is a legitimate reason to hire someone on their terms.
Windermere, Compass, John L. Scott, Keller Williams and eXp all operate across the Eastside with capable agents. The honest framing is that the percentage model charges based on your home's value rather than the work your sale requires, and in a market where the median home is worth $1.3M and sells in two weeks, a lot of Redmond sellers are on the wrong side of that trade.
Wayber is a licensed Washington brokerage partnered with Kelly Right Real Estate. Real MLS listing, real representation, fixed price.
Compare with realtors in Bellevue and realtors in Seattle, or read the statewide breakdown for Washington realtors.