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Home affordability calculator

Estimate what your household budget can support before comparing it with a lender's maximum offer.

This starts with your household cash flow. It does not use a lender's maximum debt-to-income ceiling.

Budget-based home price estimate

$373,583.23

A planning ceiling based on the expenses, savings, safety margin, and housing costs entered.

Mortgage payment allowance$2,000.00
Estimated mortgage principal$333,583.23
Deposit$40,000.00
Protected monthly margin$300.00
Total housing share40.0% of take-home income

Educational estimate only. Obtain a regulated lender quotation and verify taxes, insurance, fees, lending rules, and property costs in your country.

Plain-language method

Affordability starts with the life around the mortgage.

This method protects non-housing expenses, existing debt payments, monthly saving, a user-selected safety margin, and recurring ownership costs before calculating a mortgage-payment allowance.

The resulting home price is a planning estimate, not a lending limit. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau similarly distinguishes how much a lender may offer from how much a household can comfortably repay.

Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau affordability guidance

Payment allowance = take-home income − living costs − debt − protected saving − safety margin − other housing costs

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