Total commissions charged to the buyer and seller combined cannot add up to more than 6percentt of the purchase price.
Mr. Guelfi justified the payment -- bringing total commissions paid to about $60 million -- by producing false "feasibility studies".
The first broker can make the total commission if he finds the buyer, which, of course, is less likely when the property is listed with other brokers.
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In association with other brokers at Sumitomo, she has been involved in 23 transactions totaling only 60,000 square feet of space that have produced more than $365,000 in total commissions.
Josephthal said it was "disappointed that the enforcement staff of N.A.S.D. Regulation Inc. decided to initiate a complaint against the firm and three individuals in this four-year-old matter involving total commissions of less than $500,000".
"In concrete terms," Mr. Le Floch-Prigent told the daily newspaper Le Figaro, "once a year, the president of Elf goes to the Elysée Palace with a chart recording total commissions for the year.
Once the bill takes effect, the total commission and additional fees charged by lenders and others involved in the mortgage process will effectively be limited to a maximum 3 percent of the loan amount.
While the current economic climate is dampening corporate travel plans, travel agencies have been under pressure since the mid-1990's, when major airlines cut commissions to most agents in half, and capped total commission paid on a round-trip ticket at $50. Revenues fell so sharply that hundreds of agencies have either gone out of business or have been acquired by other companies.
In one quarter of 1999, these inflated commissions accounted for over one-fifth of the firm's total commission revenue.In reaching an agreement, John Mack, hired as CSFB's chief executive last year, is hoping to bring to a close a chapter that played a part in the sacking of his predecessor, Allen Wheat.
