What selling a Sacramento home costs in commission.
Sacramento’s median estimated home value is $492,000. At the 5.7% average total commission that is about $28,044 — and every negotiated point keeps $4,920. Commission is negotiable, not standard; put in your own price and the rates you were quoted.
Illustrative arithmetic on the numbers you typed. There is no standard commission — rates are negotiable by law, and the surest way to find your market’s real rate is to have several agents quote against each other for your listing.
How much is real estate commission on a median home in Sacramento?
About $28,044 at 5.7% of $492,000. The median is the middle of 1,008 automated valuations sampled from the 207,717 Sacramento parcel records we hold (Clever Real Estate survey of 533 agents, February 2026 for the rate). See Sacramento home values for the full picture, or how selling works in Sacramento.