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Closing Costs Calculator – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

Enter estimates for the price of a home you want to buy, your down payment amount, your interest rate and whether you plan to purchase discount points. The next section shows a breakdown of typical closing costs, including fees for the home appraisal, title insurance and loan origination, as well as property taxes and home insurance premiums.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

I track expenses, monitor our budget and handle all of our investments. Alan and I, by choice, bought land in an area with low property taxes. Had we not fallen in love with the locale, it wouldn’t have mattered how low the taxes were, but fall in love we did. Spreadsheets are my friends. We saved $105.00