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What Closing Costs Can I Expect When Buying or Selling a Home?
The stakes in real estate transactions are high – and often fraught with emotion for people who may well be engaging in the biggest purchase or sale of their lives. Furthermore, it takes a lot of different people working together to make a home purchase or other real estate transaction happen. The buyer and seller are just the beneficiaries of a tremendous amount of effort that takes place on the part of lenders, real estate agents, escrow representatives, property and title insurance agents, county registrars and local property tax officials – and no one in these agencies can work for free.
The good news is that if you are a buyer, you shouldn’t be blindsided by any significant unexpected costs: Federal laws require lenders to provide their customers with a good faith estimate, or GFE, of your closing costs, within three days of your loan application. All your expected closing costs are delineated in this document, though some of them can vary by as much as 10 percent when you get to the closing table.
It is important to compare the GFE with any HUD-1 forms you receive in the mail during the escrow process. You may receive more than one ... more

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