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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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Ding
Prior to the big conference, Octavia’s phone is dinging off the hook.
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Appraisals
Octavia investigations strange goings-on in the Appraisals folder.
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Fax Fear
Octavia must face her fear of using Horace’s outdated tech.
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Lord High Rates
The Fed continues its primordial heroic struggle against its cosmic arch nemesis, Lord High Rates.
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So Bleak for So Long
Things have been so bleak for so long, Horace doesn’t know what to do with himself.
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Another Fax Machine
Horace invests in another fax machine for the office.
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