{"id":735,"date":"2026-04-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:00:00","slug":"home-buying-costs-quadruple-buyer-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/home-buying-costs-quadruple-buyer-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-Buying Costs Quadruple Buyer Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/michael-koo\/home-buying-costs-higher\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Surveyed buyers spent ~$31.5K upfront, ~4x their ~$8.1K expectation, excluding down payments.<br \/>\nTypical upfront costs: moving ~$3K, closing ~$5.7K, seller concessions ~$7.7K, first-yr repairs ~$15.1K.<br \/>\nBiggest surprises: repairs\/renovations (18%), closing costs (16%), and property taxes (14%), survey respondents said.<br \/>\nAfter buying, ~75% said costs hit finances; ~72% reported regrets, often wishing they negotiated more.<br \/>\nFirst-time buyers spent ~$36.5K vs ~$28.3K repeat buyers; 41% felt uninformed before offering.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveyed buyers spent ~$31.5K upfront, ~4x their ~$8.1K expectation, excluding down payments. Typical upfront costs: moving ~$3K, closing ~$5.7K, seller concessions ~$7.7K, first-yr repairs ~$15.1K. Biggest surprises: repairs\/renovations (18%), closing costs (16%), and property taxes (14%), survey respondents said. After buying, ~75% said costs hit finances; ~72% reported regrets, often wishing they negotiated more. First-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekooteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}