{"id":26929,"date":"2024-07-18T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=26929"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:17:41","slug":"closing-costs-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/closing-costs-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Sellers: Prepare for These 11 Closing Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selling your home is an exciting prospect, but many homeowners are surprised to learn just how expensive it is to finalize a sale. Sellers are on the hook for many closing costs<\/a> that significantly affect their net proceeds when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

Closing costs for sellers in Tennessee typically is about 7% of the sale. However, your total cost can vary depending on what specific factors are involved in your sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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To help you get a clear idea of what you\u2019ll owe in closing costs after selling your Tennessee home, HomeLight interviewed Nicholas Nicaud<\/a>, a top real estate agent in Knoxville, who sells 5% more homes than his peers. With insight from an expert agent and hours of research, we put together this comprehensive guide to Tennessee closing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It typically costs Tennessee sellers 7% of their home\u2019s sale price to close a sale. Use this guide to figure out how much you\u2019re likely to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":45780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-logistics","category-closing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n11 Closing Costs in Tennessee Sellers Need to Know<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It typically costs Tennessee sellers 7% of their home\u2019s sale price to close a sale. 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