Down Payment Opportunity Cost Calculator
Down Payment Opportunity Cost: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers down payment (currency). Stub page while the tool and its worked example are prepared.
Down Payment Opportunity Cost Calculator is a planned calculator in the real estate section of Super Calculator, covering rent versus buy.
What this calculator will compute
Inputs: down payment (currency), monthly cost difference (currency), investment return (%), home appreciation (%), horizon (years), selling costs (%) and capital gains treatment.
Outputs: terminal wealth per path (currency), required appreciation to match investing (%) and crossover horizon (years).
Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: Compares the terminal wealth of investing the down payment and any monthly cost difference at an assumed real return against the terminal home equity net of selling costs, over the same horizon and adjusted for tax treatment of each.
Status
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