In our own transactions it is rare, well under a couple of percent, and most fallout traces to buyers who were never fully vetted before the offer went in. The mortgage side runs similarly low for us, a handful of files a year in a well-qualified pipeline. Industry-wide, with experienced agents and loan officers on both sides, fallout tends to sit in the low single digits. It climbs, sometimes toward ten percent, in lower-priced markets with less experienced agents and buyers who were never truly qualified before writing. The biggest variable is how thoroughly the buyer was vetted up front, far more than any property or loan type. When a deal does collapse, it almost always traces to one of two causes: - Financing. The loan does not get approved, usually because something was never verified before the offer went in. - A dispute that cannot be bridged. Most often an appraisal coming in short or a standoff over inspection repairs. The encouraging part: the financing failure is largely preventable. Getting your income, assets, and credit genuinely underwritten before you shop, rather than leaning on a quick pre-qualification, takes the most common cause off the table. That early scrutiny is a big part of what the free Roadmap conversation is for.