Realtors don’t own the houses.
You can choose your realtor. You can discuss with them.
This person just bought a 2m house!
It's literally in the first paragraph of the article.
"At trial, a federal jury found that they violated antitrust law by conspiring to force home sellers to pay inflated commissions to real estate agents."
also, they don’t get paid if something doesn’t sell for being overpriced.
it’s a market system.
Are they legally required to do that? How would you even prove it was due to them?
Realtors negotiate for themselves, not for either buyers or sellers.
I did have one who dropped their commission a little to close a sale, but that's not a common experience. (And they still did very well out of it.)