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What is Closing Cost?

Buying a property involves more than agreeing on its price. This calculator adds several purchase-related charges so that you can see how selected assumptions affect a preliminary budget. It combines a percentage of the purchase price, a fixed percentage of the loan, and three individually entered fees.

The result is a limited worksheet estimate. It does not look up local tax schedules, lender quotations, concessions, or a settlement statement. In particular, the loan charge is fixed at 1% in this implementation. That is a modeling assumption, not a fee that every lender charges.

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How to Use This Calculator

Enter the purchase price and the proposed loan amount using the same currency. Enter Stamp Duty as a percentage of the entire purchase price: type 2 for 2%, not 0.02. Add registration, inspection, and legal fees as money amounts. Empty optional fee fields are treated as zero.

Choose the currency beside the Annual Rent field, then select Calculate. There is no exchange-rate conversion. Annual Rent itself and Custom Percentage are unused fields in the current form; changing either does not change the result. The currency selection supplies the label only. Check the formula below rather than assuming every visible field contributes to the estimate.

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Formula Used

Stamp-duty amount = purchase price × stamp-duty percentage ÷ 100. Assumed loan fee = loan amount × 0.01. Estimated closing cost = stamp-duty amount + assumed loan fee + registration fee + inspection cost + legal fee.

All five terms are added once. The purchase price and loan principal are not themselves closing costs and are not added to this total. Neither monthly interest nor a mortgage repayment schedule is calculated. If a real tax uses bands, exemptions, or a different taxable base, a single entered percentage will not reproduce those rules automatically.

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Variables Explained

Symbol or inputMeaning
Purchase priceAgreed property price used as the base for the entered stamp-duty percentage.
Loan amountProposed borrowing used to calculate the tool’s fixed 1% loan fee.
Stamp Duty (%)User-supplied flat rate applied to the full purchase price. The tool does not determine the applicable rate.
Registration, inspection, legal feesSeparate cash amounts, each entered in the selected currency and included once.
CurrencyDisplay label, selected beside Annual Rent. It does not convert any amount.
Annual Rent / Custom PercentageVisible legacy fields that the current closing-cost calculation does not use.
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Worked Example

Suppose the price is 200,000 and the loan is 150,000. Use an illustrative stamp-duty rate of 2%, registration of 300, inspection of 400, and legal fees of 800. Stamp duty is 200,000 × 0.02 = 4,000. The assumed loan fee is 150,000 × 0.01 = 1,500.

The total is 4,000 + 1,500 + 300 + 400 + 800 = 7,000. The currency label follows your selection. These numbers illustrate the arithmetic and are not a statement of taxes or typical fees in any location.

If the inspection has already been paid, the tool still includes its 400 in total costs. It does not distinguish money already spent from money still due at settlement. Keep that timing distinction in your own budget.

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Why Use This Calculator?

Read the output as the sum of the included charges. Compare each line against actual quotations before using it to plan a transaction. A difference between this estimate and a professional statement may reflect omitted items or a different fee basis, rather than an arithmetic error.

For a U.S. mortgage, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Closing Disclosure explainer separates closing costs from cash to close. Cash needed at settlement can also reflect the down payment, deposits, credits, and adjustments. This calculator does not assemble those components, so its total is not an instruction for how much to transfer.

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Common Mistakes

    Do not add the same charge in two fields. For example, a legal quote that already includes registration needs to be separated before entering both values. Also avoid mixing a monthly insurance premium with an annual prepayment: the form does not reconcile periods.

    A currency choice does not make the tool apply that country’s property rules. Obtain the applicable charges for the transaction and date. The flat stamp-duty input can be particularly misleading when the actual calculation uses thresholds or reliefs. Negative entries are not a reliable way to model credits because this form has no dedicated credit accounting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I change the 1% loan fee?

The current form does not provide a working control for that rate. Custom Percentage does not replace it. If the quoted charge is different, calculate the difference separately and adjust your external budget; do not treat the displayed total as the lender’s quotation.

Does a cash purchase still have closing costs?

Entering zero for the loan removes the modeled loan fee. The entered tax and fixed fees remain. A real cash purchase can involve other charges too; this calculator includes only the listed components.

Is my down payment included?

No. Purchase price minus loan amount may be part of a simple down-payment estimate, but the calculator does not add that difference to closing costs. Keep acquisition fees and the contribution toward the property price as separate budget items.

Why does changing Annual Rent do nothing?

The closing-cost calculation never uses that number. The neighboring currency selector is used, which makes the layout confusing. Use purchase price, loan amount, stamp duty, and the three fixed fees for the calculation.

Are title insurance and prepaid interest included?

There are no dedicated inputs for those items. The total includes only the five components in the formula. Review the actual statement for additional charges instead of assuming that an omitted item has been included behind the scenes.

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