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The Average 2018 Mortgage Closing Cost Is …

Jun 11, 2019
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The national average closing costs for a single-family property in 2018 were $5,779 including taxes and $3,344 excluding taxes, according to new data from ClosingCorp.
 
Last year, the states with the highest average closing costs, including taxes, were the District of Columbia ($24,613), New York ($13,581), Delaware ($13,309), Washington ($12,667) and Maryland ($11,395). The states with the lowest closing costs, including taxes, were: Missouri ($1,887), Indiana ($2,002), South Dakota ($2,149), Iowa ($2,248) and Nebraska ($2,267).
The national average closing costs for a single-family property in 2018 were $5,779 including taxes and $3,344 excluding taxes, according to new data from ClosingCorp
The states with the highest average closing costs, excluding taxes, were: District of Columbia ($5,694), New York ($5,586), Hawaii ($5,318), California ($5,284) and Washington ($4,701). The states with the lowest closing costs, excluding taxes, were: Missouri ($1,887), Nebraska ($1,919), South Dakota ($1,995), Indiana ($2,002) and Iowa ($2,011).
 
ClosingCorp incorporated lender’s title, owner’s title, appraisals, settlement fees, recording fees, land surveys and transfer tax into its analysis. The company also used home price data from CoreLogic to create a $100,000 price range for this analysis.
 
“Because closing costs are based on sale price and taxing jurisdictions, the rankings of high and low-cost states tend to be relatively static,” said Bob Jennings, CEO of ClosingCorp. “However, that doesn’t mean that various jurisdictions aren’t continually contemplating increases and adjustments. Our research showed more than one-third of all counties considered an adjustment to their taxes in 2018 and adjustments in more than 200 counties actually went into effect. These include some interesting twists. For example, four New York counties let their local mortgage tax expire and then reinstated the same tax; and the city of Baltimore introduced a ‘yield tax,’ which is essentially a ‘tax on tax.’”

 
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