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Kansas guide
In most states the first closing-cost question a buyer asks is "what's the transfer tax?" It's usually the biggest government line on the settlement statement, and the one that swings hardest across a state line.
In Kansas, the answer is zero. No state real estate transfer tax, no deed tax, no documentary stamp. On the statewide median sale price of $304,048, that line reads $0.
The second half of the story is better. Kansas also used to charge a mortgage registration tax — a percentage of your loan amount, paid to the county Register of Deeds when the mortgage was recorded. The Legislature phased it down between 2015 and 2018 and repealed it outright effective January 1, 2019. So a Kansas buyer today avoids two separate percentage-based taxes that buyers elsewhere still pay: one on the price of the house, one on the size of the loan.
That's why the Kansas range starts at 2% rather than the 3% floor common in higher-tax states. Below is where your money actually goes here. For how each individual fee works, our line-by-line breakdown of every closing cost covers the mechanics.
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 are set county by county, and what's "customary" in Johnson County isn't necessarily customary in Sedgwick. Your Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure are authoritative. Use this to sanity-check them, not to replace them.
A 2-5% range against Kansas's $304,048 median sale price gives you roughly $6,081 to $15,202, midpoint around $10,642. Round the price up to $350,000 and that becomes about $7,000 to $17,500.
Read the full Kansas guide →9 min read · Updated 2026-08-24