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Real Estate Agent or Redfin?

I own a home in the San Francisco Bay Area that I'm planning to sell this year. I'm debating between using a real estate agent I know or Redfin. The real estate agent is very good at what she does, and is an expert in our neighborhood. I spoke to the Redfin agent, she seems very good, and is the top performer in our city.
We expect our house to sell between $1.7M and $1.9M.
Real Estate Agent: 2.5% to her, 2.5% to buyer agent
Redfin: 1% to Redfin (if we buy using them as well, which we probably will, 2.5% to buyer agent.

In a normal housing market, I think there's a better case to be made for using the real estate agent, but in a market as hot as this one, I know we will get a lot of people viewing the property and probably multiple offers. Is it likely that a good real estate agent will bring $25K in value over the Redfin agent?

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