County recording fees for deeds and mortgages. Change the numbers and hit Calculate to see it work — on your live site it's branded to you and uses your state's exact rates.
County recording fees for deeds and mortgages
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Recording fees depend on document type and page count and vary by county. This calculator estimates the deed and mortgage recording charges for a transaction so they're accurate on the statement.
It's a small line item that's easy to get wrong — and getting it right every time is part of why partners trust your office.
Generally a fee for the first page plus a smaller fee for each additional page, sometimes with indexing charges or an e-recording surcharge on top. The rates are set by the county recorder or clerk.
Because the recorder sets them. Two adjacent counties can charge materially different first-page fees, and some add local surcharges that others do not.
Not often, but they do change, and a stale figure on a website is worse than none. This is one of the numbers we keep current for the agencies we build for.
Typically the deed and the mortgage or deed of trust, with room for additional recorded instruments as needed.
Electronic submission to the recorder, usually carrying a small per-document surcharge from the submitting service. It is almost always worth it: same-day recording rather than days in the post, and rejections come back immediately instead of a week later.
It comes back for correction and re-submission, and the fee is generally charged again. Margin violations and missing legal descriptions are the most common causes, and both are avoidable at preparation.
Most recorders charge a first-page fee and a smaller per-page fee after that. A deed is short. A mortgage with riders can run forty pages. That is why two closings on identical prices can carry very different recording charges, and why a good estimate needs a page count rather than a percentage.
Margin requirements, indexing charges, e-recording surcharges and documentary requirements are set locally. Some counties reject documents for a margin that is a quarter-inch short, which costs a day and a re-record fee.
Recording is small money and a large share of your quoting calls, because nobody remembers the per-page rate for the county they are closing in this week. Putting it on the site removes those calls without removing the accuracy.
The most common error is quoting the fee from the last closing in a different county. Recorders set their own schedules and surcharges, so a figure that was right in one county last week is simply a guess in the next one.
A financed purchase records at least two instruments — the deed and the mortgage — and each carries its own first-page and per-page charges. Quoting only the deed understates the line by more than half on most files.
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