{"id":611,"date":"2025-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:00:00","slug":"homebuyers-invest-early-for-a-smooth-closing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/homebuyers-invest-early-for-a-smooth-closing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebuyers Invest Early for a Smooth Closing Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Homebuyers typically spend around $1,500 upfront for loan approval, inspections, and appraisals before closing escrow. Costs include credit reports (up to $200 for couples), earnest money deposits (usually 1-3% of the home price), home inspections (~$650), appraisals ($600-$900), termite inspections (~$120), and HOA document fees ($350-$900). Some fees may be refundable or waived, but many are non-refundable if escrow falls through.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/10\/16\/homebuyers-will-spend-at-least-1500-before-escrow-closes\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homebuyers typically spend around $1,500 upfront for loan approval, inspections, and appraisals before closing escrow. Costs include credit reports (up to $200 for couples), earnest money deposits (usually 1-3% of the home price), home inspections (~$650), appraisals ($600-$900), termite inspections (~$120), and HOA document fees ($350-$900). Some fees may be refundable or waived, but many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}