How Much House Can I Afford?
Estimate a home price that fits your income, existing debts and monthly housing costs—then see how a higher or lower mortgage rate changes the result.
Estimate your home-buying range
Change the assumptions below. The primary result uses a planning-oriented housing budget and also respects a total debt-to-income limit.
Your finances
Mortgage assumptions
Property costs
Upfront purchase costs
Starting assumptions are provided for planning. Actual stamp duty, registration and other purchase costs vary by location, property and transaction, so adjust them for your situation.
Loan qualification context
CIBIL information is shown as qualification context and does not change this affordability estimate.
Your CIBIL selection does not increase or decrease the affordable-home-price estimate above. Actual loan eligibility, interest rate, approved loan amount and other terms depend on the lender's underwriting and your circumstances.
Comfortable scenario breakdown
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Property tax —
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Total housing cost —
Housing ratio —
Total DTI —
Estimated upfront cash needed
Down payment —
Estimated stamp duty —
Estimated registration / other purchase costs —
Total estimated upfront cash —
These purchase costs are shown separately and are not assumed to be financed as part of the affordable home price.
How rates affect your estimated affordable home price
Keeps the same overall housing-budget limits while recalculating the mortgage payment and other price-dependent housing costs. This is different from a P&I-only purchasing-power comparison.
Affordability is more than the mortgage payment
A home payment can include principal and interest, property taxes, homeowners insurance, homeowners association dues and, for some loans, mortgage insurance. Existing monthly debt also matters because it reduces the room available in a household budget.
How this calculator estimates a home price
The calculator starts with gross monthly household income and applies both a housing-cost limit and a total debt-to-income limit. It uses the lower available housing budget, subtracts estimated insurance and HOA costs, then solves backward for a home price using the mortgage rate, loan term, property-tax rate, down payment and PMI assumption.
The Comfortable, Stretch and Higher-DTI outputs are scenarios—not promises of approval. The higher scenario is intentionally labeled as such rather than presented as a maximum a lender will approve.
Why mortgage rates change purchasing power
With the same monthly budget, a higher interest rate generally supports a smaller mortgage and therefore a lower estimated home price. The rate comparison keeps your other assumptions the same and changes only the mortgage rate by one percentage point in either direction.
What this estimate does not include
Real-life homeownership also involves utilities, repairs, maintenance, moving expenses, closing costs and other priorities such as emergency savings and retirement contributions. Those items are not included in the affordability ratios used by this calculator, so consider them separately before making a purchase decision.