Knightsbridge vendor offers up huge bonus as US-style brokers change the game in PCL
Owner of £14m apartment incentives hard with 1% sub agency fee and a £100k negotiator bonus on top of joint sole agency fees, in a bid to appeal to London's new breed of 'broker agents'; fee structure predicted to become 'mainstream practice' in PCL as vendors look to widen pool of HNW buyers
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