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2026 Purchase Mortgage Closing Cost Data Report
Closing costs as a percentage of sales price hovers around 0.5% to 3%, with an average percentage of 1.04% and a median of 0.85%. Just like in 2025, Delaware leads the pack at a whopping 3.06% of the sales price.
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Full Disclosure
What Ticks Us Off the Most
Here on the Full Disclosure podcast, we try to keep things chill. But when it’s time to grind our gears… don’t even get us started.
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A Tale of Two Mortgages
CRM Revisited
Horace and Octavia continue their protracted conflict over the use of the CRM (or lack thereof).
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Vacation Brain
Horace’s brain is on vacation… whether he likes it or not.
A Tale of Two Mortgages
Unnecessarily Weird
Horace and Octavia compare their experiences of the current market.
A Tale of Two Mortgages
CRM Revisited
Horace and Octavia continue their protracted conflict over the use of the CRM (or lack thereof).
A Tale of Two Mortgages
Raise Your Hand
Horace sustains an injury from hand signing closing docs.
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Cancels Out
Horace weighs the ups and downs of his experience at a mortgage conference.
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RIP
Different lenders have different feelings about trigger leads.
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Desperate Tech Vendors
Horace has no qualms about bumming dinners off desperate mortgage tech vendors.
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