The Real Estate Commission Tax

In this episode of Confidential Remarks, we break down why real estate commissions no longer behave like professional service fees — and why they increasingly function like a built-in tax on the transaction.Rising home prices have triggered automatic pay increases for decades, even as technology reduced labor, complexity, and friction. The result is a pricing model disconnected from effort, transparency, and value delivered.This isn’t an attack on professionals. It’s an examination of a system that scales with the asset instead of the work — and why consumers are starting to question the model itself.Once you see the math, you can’t unsee it.