The concern is understandable, but the market-wide impact would be small, and rule gaps like this rarely last long. VA financing is a modest share of overall home purchases, so even a temporary snag affecting VA buyers specifically would not meaningfully move total demand or prices. The much larger pools of conventional and FHA buyers drive those. As for VA buyers themselves, veterans are a large, organized, and vocal constituency. Any policy that appeared to disadvantage them on buyer-agent compensation would draw fast pushback and pressure on the VA and Congress to fix it, so a gap is unlikely to survive long enough to lock anyone out for good. The durable takeaway, separate from any single policy moment: agent compensation is negotiable for everyone now, VA buyers included. The workable path is negotiating it as part of the deal, for example a seller concession that covers it, rather than assuming any party automatically pays. If you are a VA buyer, work with an agent and lender who structure the compensation piece up front so it is handled in the offer instead of surfacing as a surprise.