Fair Home Cash What it costs to sell a house,
in all 50 states and D.C.

The spread: $17,915 to $58,365 to sell the median home

Selling the median-priced home costs the most, in dollars, in California: an estimated $58,365 in agent commission, closing costs, and transfer tax on its $887,000 median sale price (6.58% of the price). It costs the least in Louisiana: an estimated $17,915 on its $269,000 median (6.66%). That is a $40,450 gap — the most expensive market costs roughly 3.3 times the least expensive one, driven almost entirely by home prices rather than rates.

Every figure is computed from the sourced state dataset in the table below: each cost line is calculated on the state's median sale price and rounded to the nearest dollar, then the rounded lines are summed.

Three things the 51-market data shows

1. Commission is the largest line everywhere. The agent commission is the biggest single selling cost in all 51 markets — never less than 64% of the total. State-average commission rates run from 4.5% in the District of Columbia and 5.2% in New Jersey to 6.2% in Michigan; the average across the 50 state figures in the same Clever survey dataset is 5.68%.

2. Transfer taxes are where states differ most. 17 of the 51 markets levy no transfer tax on the seller's side of the sale at all. Where one exists, the estimated seller share ranges from 0.02% in Colorado to 2% in Delaware — a difference big enough to move a state several places in the total-cost ranking.

3. Price, not rates, drives the dollar gap. Total costs run from about 6.2% to 8.7% of the sale price in every market, so the dollar spread mostly tracks median prices — from $259,000 in Iowa to $887,000 in California (both per the Redfin state market tracker, May 2026).

Selling costs in all 50 states and D.C., at each state's median

Sorted alphabetically by default — click any column header to re-sort. Each state name links to that state's closing-cost page, where the same numbers can be recalculated on any sale price and every source is cited line by line. Column sources (a) through (d) are named in the methodology below; the last three columns are computed from them.

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Hover any transfer-tax figure for its state-specific source. Totals are estimates at each state's median sale price; they exclude repairs, staging, seller concessions, moving, and mortgage payoff, and local city or county add-ons apply in some markets (noted in the per-state sources).

Where every number comes from

What the totals deliberately leave out: repairs and pre-listing preparation, staging, seller concessions, buyer-side credits, moving costs, capital-gains tax, and mortgage payoff — these vary by house, not by state. Commission figures are market averages, not fixed rates; commissions are negotiable everywhere.