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Escrow Refund Period. Mortgage lenders can take up to 30 days to refund escrow account balances to borrowers whose mortgage loans have been paid off. For several reasons, mortgage lenders tend to take their time refunding their borrowers' escrow accounts.
For four years in a row, the time it took to go from contract to close was 30 days for a normal transaction between 2005 and 2008 according to C.A.R.'s Annual Housing Market Survey. In the last two years, with the current tough underwriting standards for mortgage loans, escrow is taking a bit longerâabout 40 days.