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Down payment assistance of 2.5% or 3.5% of the purchase price (the assistance amount cannot exceed the home's appraised value), paired with an FHA or Conventional 30-year fixed-rate first mortgage; unlike First Step, has no first-time-buyer restriction.
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Indiana guide
Here is the most useful number in this entire article: $0.
That is what Indiana collects in real estate transfer tax when a deed changes hands, whether the house sold for $150,000 or $1.5 million. Indiana is one of roughly 14 states that never adopted one. In much of the country transfer tax is the line item that makes closing costs swing wildly from state to state, and sometimes from one side of a township road to the other. In Indiana it isn't on the page.
The second-most useful number is $2,200 — the figure a commonly cited state-by-state table gives for average Indiana closing costs excluding transfer taxes. On the state's median sale price of $280,055, that's roughly 0.8% of the purchase price. If you've been bracing for a five-figure hit, that's a relief.
It's also incomplete, and the gap between $2,200 and what you'll actually wire is the real subject here. For how each individual fee works, our line-by-line breakdown of closing costs covers the mechanics; this covers what's specific to Indiana.
A note before you start: this is general education, not financial, legal, or tax advice. Every figure below is a statewide number from CalculatorByState's sourced dataset, and your county, lender, title company, and contract will all move the total — recording fees, proration timing, and title charges vary from one Indiana county to the next. Your Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure are the authoritative documents. Use this to sanity-check them, not to replace them.
Indiana's statewide median sale price is $280,055 as of May 2026, up 3.7% year over year. A 2-4% inclusive buyer range against that price gives you roughly $5,601 to $11,202, with a midpoint near $8,401.65.
Push the price to $350,000 and the same range becomes $7,000 to $14,000.
Read the full Indiana guide →9 min read · Updated 2026-08-24