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How much house can I afford in North Dakota? →North Dakota Housing Finance Agency's primary below-market-rate first mortgage for first-time homebuyers statewide (first-time requirement waived for buyers using HomeAccess or in certain other exception categories); subject to income and purchase-price limits that vary by county and household size, and commonly paired with DCA or Start down payment assistance.
Down payment and closing cost assistance equal to 3% of the first mortgage loan amount, provided as a credit; DCA requires income qualification and a homebuyer education certificate, Start cannot be combined with other NDHFA down payment programs. Must be paired with a NDHFA first mortgage (FirstHome, HomeAccess, or North Dakota Roots).
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North Dakota guide
Most closing-cost articles start with a tax. This one starts with a $20 fee.
North Dakota charges no real estate transfer tax whatsoever — no deed tax, no documentary stamp, no percentage of the sale price handed over when ownership changes hands. What the county recorder collects instead is flat — $20 for a deed up to six pages, or about 0.0064% of the statewide median sale price of $313,885. In several other states the equivalent line is four figures.
There's no mortgage recording tax either. The recorder charges the same flat per-document fee whether you're financing $100,000 or $400,000.
So what does North Dakota charge you for? Everything that isn't a tax: lender fees, title work, appraisal, prepaids, and — because of a statute most buyers have never heard of — a licensed attorney's examination of your title. Our full line-by-line breakdown of closing costs covers the mechanics that are the same everywhere.
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. Recording fee schedules are set county by county, and the median price here is statewide, not a quote for Fargo, Bismarck, or Grand Forks. Your Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure are authoritative. Use this to sanity-check them, not to replace them.
A 2-5% buyer range against North Dakota's median sale price of $313,885 gives you roughly $6,278 to $15,694, with a midpoint near $10,986. On a $350,000 purchase the same range becomes about $7,000 to $17,500.
The band is wide, and that width is honest. One sourced average puts North Dakota buyer closing costs at about 4.02% of the purchase price, or roughly $12,618 on $313,885 — a reasonable planning number if you want a single figure rather than a spread, and one that excludes agent commissions.
Read the full North Dakota guide →9 min read · Updated 2026-08-24