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Data Reports
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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Women in Mortgage Tech
For this week’s episode of LLL, Alayna and Kelsey chat about their experience as women in the mortgage space, how things have changed, and where they came from.
Deeper Thoughts
True Mentors Don’t Demand Confidence—They Instill Competence
For whatever reason, some folks assume “mentorship” needs to come through some kind of formal program with titles and labels. But it’s much more than that.
Loan Estimate Challenges
Connecticut’s Biggest LE Challenges
Connecticut is one of the nation’s 22 states or districts that require an attorney’s involvement in residential real estate purchase transactions.
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Viewing Challenges as Opportunities
For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, Alayna talks with SimpleNexus CTO Lori Brewer about women in STEM and the impact that unforeseen challenges can have on your career.
A Tale of Two Mortgages
“Good for Them”
Horace and Octavia discuss their borrowers “capitalizing on current market volatility.”
Deeper Thoughts
It’s All About Culture
Building business cultures based upon equity, respect, trust, diversity and clarity is yet another example in which doing the right thing is also the best business decision.
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Recapping ICE Encompass Experience 2023
For this week’s LLL, Jim and Alayna sit down back at LodeStar HQ to recap their experience exhibiting at ICE Experience 2023 in Las Vegas.