buyer: What Closing Costs Can I Expect When Buying or Selling a Home?
- 09/27/12 10:05 AM
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. (34 comments)