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Mississippi Home Corporation 30-year fixed-rate first mortgage bundled with a $7,000 second mortgage at 0% interest for down payment/closing costs; per MHC, first-time-buyer status is not required for this program (unlike Easy8/Trusty10), broadening eligibility to repeat buyers in some cases.
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Mississippi charges no real estate transfer tax and no mortgage recording tax, so closing on a $284,900 home skips the two biggest government line items.
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Mississippi guide
Most closing-cost articles start with a tax. Mississippi doesn't have one.
There is no real estate transfer tax here. No deed stamp, no realty transfer fee, no percentage of the sale price skimmed off at the courthouse. Mississippi is one of a small handful of states where that line item simply doesn't exist; county recorders charge flat per-document fees instead.
Then it gets better. Mississippi also has no mortgage recording tax. In several states, recording the mortgage triggers a separate charge based on how much you borrowed. Not here: on a $284,900 purchase with 20% down, that $227,920 loan gets recorded for a flat fee.
What's left is a closing bill made almost entirely of lender fees, title work, an attorney, and prepaids — the parts you can actually shop and question. Our full line-by-line breakdown of closing costs walks through each category. This article covers what's specific to Mississippi.
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, attorney, and contract will all move the total. Your Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure are authoritative.
Rocket Mortgage puts Mississippi buyer closing costs at about 4.85% of the purchase price — described as running a bit above the national norm — which works out to roughly $13,818 on the statewide median sale price of $284,900. That figure covers the buyer's side specifically: loan origination, inspections, appraisals, and title insurance. Real estate commission sits on the seller's side of the ledger and isn't part of it.
A defensible planning range is 4-6% of the purchase price: roughly $11,396 to $17,094 on the median home, or $14,000 to $21,000 on a $350,000 purchase. Treat 4.85% as your best single estimate and the range as the outer bounds for a lender or title company that runs pricier than average.
Read the full Mississippi guide →9 min read · Updated 2026-08-24