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  2. Who pays closing costs, the buyer or the seller? - AOL

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    Realtor commissions: The real estate agents involved in the transaction will be owed a commission fee at closing. This typically comes to somewhere between 2.5 and 3 percent of the home’s sale ...

  3. How to sell your house in 2025: A step-by-step guide - AOL

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    In any real estate transaction, both parties must pay at least some closing costs. Assuming you are using a real estate agent and not pursuing a “for sale by owner” transaction, your agent ...

  4. Closing costs - Wikipedia

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    Closing costs are fees paid at the closing of a real estate transaction. This point in time called the closing is when the title to the property is conveyed (transferred) to the buyer. Closing costs are incurred by either the buyer or the seller. [1]

  5. Real estate transaction - Wikipedia

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    A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g. in the case of conveyance one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred ...

  6. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage bond is a bond backed by a pool of mortgages on a real estate asset such as a house. More generally, bonds which are secured by the pledge of specific assets are called mortgage bonds. Mortgage bonds can pay interest in either monthly, quarterly or semiannual periods. The prevalence of mortgage bonds is commonly credited to Mike Vranos.

  7. What are real estate transfer taxes? - AOL

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    Key takeaways. Real estate transfer taxes are a one-time fee imposed by state or local governments on the transfer of property ownership. The cost of transfer taxes varies by location and is based ...

  8. Securitization - Wikipedia

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    Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans, or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt ...

  9. How do real estate agent fees and commissions work? - AOL

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    Average real estate commissions by state Overall, the national average Realtor commission in 2023 was 5.49 percent, according to data from Clever . In all but a few states, the average commission ...