Real estate commissions worldwide

The Sellsius blog is starting to look like quite a fun source of information:

I found out about the 6% commission in the US when a US-based estate agent asked me for a co-broking fee of 3% of the sale price when I tried to list a property I had with his site. THAT'S when I realized!
The Filipino system seems to make sense in avoiding that broker's conflict of interest- issues. I also happen to love the sound of Mexico. In places like Indonesia- how do you decide who pays? It's like when the check arrives after a bad dinner date.
Anyway you can register more of the whining here: