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2025 Purchase Mortgage Closing Cost Data Report
The national average total closing costs for a purchase mortgage transaction were $4,661. This amount consists of a national average of 1.06% of the home sales price.
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Full Disclosure
October 2025 Full Episode
Here is the second full-month cut of the Full Disclosure podcast. For October, it’s all about pumpkin (of course), fall conference season, end-of-year rate cuts, and how to stay steady despite market shakeups.
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A Tale of Two Mortgages
“Rising Rates”
Horace and Octavia have different approaches to rising rates and bleak market outlooks. At least some of us have been preparing…
A Tale of Two Mortgages
A Tale of Two Mortgages: Presented by LodeStar
Meet Horace and Octavia, two loan officers whose mortgage lending workflows are very, very different. Turns out leveraging effective technology makes a huge difference in the mortgage origination process…
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