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Buying and selling a home

Closing costs and cash to close, seller net proceeds, tax proration at closing, equity and loan-to-value.

The cost of a property transaction is a long list of small figures, and the list is not arbitrary: federal rule 12 CFR 1026.38 fixes how closing costs are itemised on the Closing Disclosure every buyer receives. These calculators follow that structure, so the totals can be reconciled line by line against the form you were given rather than against a percentage estimate. Every fee, rate, commission and credit is one you enter. The site publishes no typical closing cost, no commission norm and no transfer tax rate, because those vary by state, lender and negotiation, and a quoted band is how a calculator becomes confidently wrong. Tax proration deserves particular care: a 365 or 360 day year, taxes billed in arrears or in advance, and which side owns the closing day each change the answer by real money, so all three are choices you make rather than assumptions made for you.