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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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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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The American Dream 2.0
The Lending Leaders Podcast is back! Jim Paolino sits down with Fractional Chief Strategy Officer at Silk Title Co, Jeremy Potter.
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Tech Adoption Done Right
LodeStar’s Alayna Gardner chats with Chris Gassel, Enterprise Account Executive at Polly, about how lenders can adopt new mortgage tech the RIGHT way.
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2024: A Year of Growth
Jim, Dave, and Alayna sit down together to bid farewell to 2024; a year of immense growth for both LodeStar and SettleWise.
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Use the Technology
Octavia notices someone has updated leads in the CRM.
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How to Market for Mortgage
For this week’s episode of Lending Leaders Alayna chats with Dan Smokoska, Director of Sales and Growth at HousingWire.
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Legal Pads
Octavia pitches Horace on new methods of taking borrower applications.
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This is How We Data
Ever wonder how LodeStar monitors closing costs throughout the entire country?