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How to Calculate Closing Costs

July 28, 2009

Closing costs?  Yikes.  Complicated subject.  That is, until now.  One of our all-time favorite real estate related websites is www.closing.com and it provides answers to the most detailed of closing cost scenarios.  Here’s how it works:

  1. You tell Closing.com the address of the property you’re looking to buy or sell and the property type (condo, single family, etc).
  2. Plug in the purchase (or sale) price, down payment, interest rate, and whether you intend to occupy this property or rent it out.

Plug in some basic info...

Plug in some basic info...

That’s it.  Closing.com will spit back a monthly payment estimate, and it knows the tax rate for the zip you entered.  Next, it will lead you to some title insurance and home warranty providers.  Select (or shop) policies to arrive at the final screen, your Estimated Closing Costs Report.  Handsomely laid out, this report will detail Read the rest of this entry ?

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