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Calculate closing costs for real estate transactions in Alexandria, VA. As an independent city, Alexandria has its own recording office but follows Virginia's standard tax schedule. Median home prices hover around $625,000.
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What varies most in Alexandria is property type, not the tax schedule. The city's stock runs from Old Town rowhouses to Eisenhower Valley high-rises, and the paperwork differs sharply between them: a condo purchase brings a resale packet and an association transfer fee, an older Old Town parcel brings a longer chain of title and sometimes a historic-district covenant recorded against it. Both add cost and days that no percentage table shows.
Alexandria is an independent city, so it records through its own circuit court clerk rather than a county's. Virginia gives no locality the power to levy a transfer tax, so nothing of that kind is added here.
A sale in the City of Alexandria carries two separate regional fees, each $0.10 per $100: the regional WMATA capital fee under Va. Code § 58.1-802.3, which applies because this is a Northern Virginia Transportation Authority member, and the regional congestion relief fee under § 58.1-802.4, which applies because this is Planning District 8. Both statutes place the fee on the grantor, though in each case the parties may agree the buyer pays part of it, so the default is $0.20 per $100 of the sale price on the seller. On a $625,000 sale the two together come to $1,250. Purchase closings only: a refinance records a deed of trust rather than a conveyance, so neither fee nor the grantor tax applies to one.
Recordation tax is Virginia's state rate of $0.25 per $100 under Va. Code § 58.1-801, paid by the buyer. Under § 58.1-814 a locality that adopts an ordinance may add one-third of that ($0.0833 per $100), also charged to the buyer — so no Virginia locality levies $0.10 as recordation tax. Whether the City of Alexandria has adopted that ordinance is not reflected in these figures; confirm with the Circuit Court Clerk before relying on a recordation number.
Closing costs in Alexandria, VA typically range from 2% to 5% of the purchase price for buyers and 1% to 3% for sellers. For a $500,000 home, expect $10,000–$25,000 in buyer closing costs. Exact amounts depend on loan type, title insurance choices, and City of Alexandria recording fees.
Both buyers and sellers pay closing costs in Virginia. Buyers typically cover title insurance, loan fees, recording fees, and prepaid items. Sellers pay the grantor tax, their settlement fee, and agent commissions. In Alexandria, some costs are negotiable between parties.
The Virginia grantor tax is $0.50 per $500 of the sale price (effectively 0.1%). This is paid by the seller at closing. On a $500,000 home, the grantor tax is $500.
No local transfer tax — Virginia gives localities no power to levy one. But a purchase in Alexandria does carry two state-imposed Northern Virginia regional fees totalling $0.20 per $100, payable by the seller by default and not owed on a refinance. See the local tax section above for the statutes and a worked figure.
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These are estimates based on standard City of Alexandria rates. Every transaction is different — contact Will Rapuano at Pruitt Title LLC for an accurate, line-by-line closing cost breakdown for your Alexandria, VA property.