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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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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…
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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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