Well personally in this market you are crazy to use an agent to begin with.  What good are they.  They have no idea the worth of a property anymore and it takes them nothing to sell a house when people are rushing to make crazy offers.  Leave these parasites out of the equation altogether.  Is there anything worse than hearing from TREB that foreign buyers are having no impact and sale prices are in line with other big cities.   Humbug.... NEVER USE AN AGENT!!