Purchase costs (title & escrow fees, broker commissions, shipping, sales tax, etc.)

Selling costs (title & escrow fees, broker commissions, shipping, transfer fees, etc.)

While investors pay broker commissions on A.D.R.'s, there are no managers to support.

For stocks and bonds, add broker commissions and other selling expenses to the price paid for the security.

Founded in 2001, LIXI has developed and released standards for such transactions as mortgage applications, property valuations, broker commissions and several others.

Its costs included $15,600 in broker commissions and a $9,234 prepayment penalty to terminate the New Century loan.

Mr. Tobey said that this settlement went beyond addressing inflated broker commissions.

Mr. Sullivan said the investigation centered on sales of less than $10 million and broker commissions of less than $300,000.

"The courts have deterimined that we don't have the authority to set fees or broker commissions."

Lee Ryback, controller of the Kibel Companies, which owns five buildings in Manhattan, said his company planned to require tenants to pay broker commissions again.