Revolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingRevolutionizing · Modernizing · SimplifyingThere is no standard rate - commission is negotiable, and since August 2024 it is not in the MLS to be averaged. On the median Colorado sale of $570,000, every percentage point is $5,700. We charge 1%, 2% or 2.5% at closing, plus a flat $595.
Nobody can measure a Colorado average, and the sites that quote one are quoting a survey. Commission is negotiable here and always has been, and since August 2024 an offer of compensation to a buyer’s agent cannot be published in the MLS at all - so the figure simply is not in any feed to be averaged.
What can be stated exactly is what a rate costs in dollars. The tables below run every rate the market produces against the Colorado median sold price of $570,000 and against each price band, all measured from 65,743 real sales over September 2025 to August 2026. Find the row you are actually being offered.
| Commission rate | On the median Colorado sale | Per $100,000 of sale price | Where we sit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1% | $5,700 | $1,000 | Symbio Signature |
| 1.5% | $8,550 | $1,500 | - |
| 2% | $11,400 | $2,000 | Symbio Showcase |
| 2.5% | $14,250 | $2,500 | Symbio Luxury Showcase |
| 3% | $17,100 | $3,000 | - |
| 4% | $22,800 | $4,000 | - |
| 5% | $28,500 | $5,000 | - |
| 5.5% | $31,350 | $5,500 | - |
| 6% | $34,200 | $6,000 | - |
The middle column is the one worth carrying away: on a Colorado home at the median, every single percentage point is $5,700. That is the arithmetic behind every conversation about commission, and it does not depend on anybody’s opinion of what a fair rate is.
A state median is one number. What a point is worth to you depends on what your home is worth, so here is the same arithmetic run on the median sale in each band.
| Price band | Sales | Median sold price | At 1% | At 2.5% | At 5% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $300k | 4,602 | $240,000 | $2,400 | $6,000 | $12,000 |
| $300k to $500k | 19,250 | $420,000 | $4,200 | $10,500 | $21,000 |
| $500k to $750k | 23,866 | $599,900 | $5,999 | $14,998 | $29,995 |
| $750k to $1M | 9,411 | $845,000 | $8,450 | $21,125 | $42,250 |
| $1M to $1.5M | 5,196 | $1,185,000 | $11,850 | $29,625 | $59,250 |
| $1.5M and up | 3,418 | $1,963,500 | $19,635 | $49,088 | $98,175 |
Every other page in this section leads with a measured number, so it is worth being clear about why this one does not.
We do not hold data on what other brokerages charge. Commission is agreed one seller at a time, and since August 2024 the one place it used to be visible - an offer of compensation published in the MLS - no longer carries it. So a Colorado average is not something we could measure if we wanted to, and it is not something the sites quoting you "5% to 6%" measured either. Those come from surveys and estimates.
We would rather publish the arithmetic and be useful than publish a range and be quotable. The ladder above is complete: whatever rate you are offered, by us or by anyone else, its row is in that table.
Our own prices are not an estimate, so these are exact. All four include a full-service agent.
| How you sell | What it costs | The fee itself | With the admin fee, at this price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build Your Own | $500 up front, plus the marketing you pick | $500 up front | $5,095 |
| Signature | 1% at closing | $5,700 | $6,295 |
| Showcase | 2% at closing | $11,400 | $11,995 |
| Luxury Showcase | 2.5% at closing | $14,250 | $14,845 |
Build Your Own is shown as its $500 setup plus the $4,000 success fee that applies at this sale price, plus the administrative fee; it does not include the marketing you choose, because picking only what you want is the point of it. The $595 fee is flat, charged once on every option, and covers the MLS listing, the disclosures and the paperwork.
This is the part of the old "6% split two ways" idea that actually changed, and it is worth getting right because it is a separate decision from the one above.
Since August 2024 a buyer’s agent has to agree in writing with their own buyer what they will be paid, before showing them a home, and that offer cannot be published in the MLS. A seller is not required to contribute towards it. Whether you do, and how much, is negotiated in the contract like the closing date or the inspection period - and none of it is paid to us. The figures everywhere else on this page are what Symbio charges you and nothing else.
There is not a published one, and we would rather tell you that than invent it. No law, rule or association sets a commission rate in Colorado - it is negotiable, and it always has been - and since August 2024 an offer of compensation to a buyer’s agent cannot be published in the MLS, so there is no feed anybody can measure a state average from. Any figure quoted to you as "the average" comes from a survey or an estimate. What can be stated exactly is what each rate costs: on the current Colorado median sold price of $570,000, one percentage point is $5,700. Symbio charges 1%, 2% or 2.5% at closing, or $500 up front on Build Your Own, plus a flat $595 administrative fee.
Yes. Every commission is negotiable between a seller and the brokerage they hire, and nothing in Colorado law or in any association rule fixes a rate. That is exactly why no honest average exists: each one is its own agreement. What you are choosing between is what a brokerage charges and what it does for it, which is why the table above prices the rates rather than ranking them.
Since August 2024 this works differently from how most people remember it. A buyer’s agent must agree in writing with their own buyer what they will be paid before showing a home, and a seller is not required to offer anything towards it. Whether you contribute, and how much, is negotiated in the contract like any other term. It is not part of what Symbio charges you and it is not paid to us.
Four ways, and all four include a full-service agent. Signature is 1% at closing - $5,700 on a home at the median - Showcase is 2%, Luxury Showcase is 2.5%, and Build Your Own is $500 up front plus the marketing you pick and a success fee at closing, which at this price is $4,000. Every option carries the same flat $595 administrative fee, charged once, at closing.
It is the same service on every option: the pricing, the photography and marketing you have chosen, the showings, the negotiation, the contracts, the inspection and the appraisal, and coordination through to closing. Two things are genuinely not in it, and we would rather say so here than have you find out at the table - anything you decide to contribute towards a buyer’s agent, and your own closing costs, which are charges from the title company, the county and your lender rather than from us.
Everything above is priced against the state median, and your home is not the state median. Tell us the address and we will put the real figures in front of you - what we think it will sell for, and what you would keep on each of the four options.
Get your numbersEvery figure on this page is measured from our live MLS feed and recomputed every fifteen minutes - it is not a monthly snapshot, and the moment these figures were worked out is stamped at the foot of the page. Sales figures cover residential sales only, over the last twelve complete calendar months; rentals, land and commercial are excluded, as are fractional co-ownership shares, which are priced per share and would distort every median. Market data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed - talk to us before making a decision on it.
The median sold price and the band medians above are live MLS figures. The Symbio prices are our own published prices, the same ones on our listing page. No figure on this page is an estimate of what another brokerage charges, because that is not something we can measure.
These figures were worked out from the live MLS feed at September 7, 2026 at 10:48 AM Mountain time, and are recomputed every fifteen minutes.