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Who pays the agent, and why the answer changed
American buyers used to be told the seller paid for everything and the arrangement was standard. Both halves of that sentence are now questions you are expected to ask.
A Level-Up Growth directory
Find the agency. Then check the paperwork.
Every market has directories that sort by whoever paid most that month. This one is alphabetical, holds no ratings, and records where each fact came from and when it was last checked. Alongside it, reporting on the things a listing will never tell you — permits, levies, escrow, who actually pays the agent.
Coverage
United Arab Emirates
31
Australia
20
United States
20
Specialisms tracked
24
News & features
All stories → 
How a listing earns its page
The full standard →Stage one
Compiled
Assembled from published sources, with the date recorded. It appears in the directory and in search. It does not get an indexed page of its own, because a name and a city is not a page worth publishing.
Stage two
Verified
Checked against the agency's own website and licence record, never an aggregator. Contact details appear only at this point. Until then the entry says so plainly rather than repeating what a third party claims.
Stage three
Claimed
The agency proves control, corrects what is wrong and supplies imagery we are allowed to publish. Claiming is free and always will be.
Stage four
Partner
A paid listing, marked as one. It is never moved up a list — commercial standing changes how a row looks, never where it sits. Every list here stays alphabetical.
For agencies
What is on offer →Being listed costs nothing and always will. Claiming a listing lets you correct the record and add material we are allowed to publish. Beyond that there are paid options — a marked partner listing, advertising, and websites built and hosted by Level-Up Growth — and all of them are labelled wherever they appear.
None of them buys a position in a list, a rating, or a mention in an article. That is not a policy we intend to revisit: the moment commercial standing moves a row, the list stops being worth reading and the advertising stops being worth buying.