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A straight answer, in about a minute

What happens to your payment if you move?

Every website will tell you what your home is worth. None of them tell you what your monthly payment becomes — and that's the number that actually decides whether you move. Answer six questions and you'll have it.

1Your home now
This is how we work out your interest rate, so you don't have to go looking for it.
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The whole amount that leaves your account — including taxes and insurance if they're bundled in.
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Your best guess is fine. We'll tell you later how to find out for real.
2Your next home
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A rough number is fine — you can slide it around once you see what it does.
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A guess is fine until you have a builder's number.
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Total, not monthly. Enter 0 if you'd stay put through it.
3Your answer
You pay now
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You'd pay after moving
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The difference
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The price where your payment doesn't change

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—Same payment as today
What you'd walk away with
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What your old rate is worth
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4Where the money goes
How we worked this out

We filled these in from published averages so you didn't have to look anything up. If you know a real number, type it over ours and everything above updates.

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Average for the year you bought
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Assumed
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Worked out from the answers above
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What's left of your payment after the loan
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30-year average, 25 August 2026
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Commission, transfer fee, attorney
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The rest goes toward the next house
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Home equity average, 26 August 2026

Want the real numbers?

Everything above is built from national averages and your best guesses. I can replace all of it with the actual figures for your actual house — no charge, no obligation.

  • What your home would really sell for today, from recent sales on your street
  • Your real mortgage payoff, not an estimate
  • Your actual tax bill, and what taxes look like where you're headed
  • A real rate you'd qualify for, from my lending partner
This is the only way to pull the real numbers. It comes straight to me, and goes nowhere else.

The honest fine print

This is an estimate, not an appraisal and not a loan offer. It can't tell you what your home is worth — only a look at recent sales near you can do that. It can't tell you what rate you'd get; only a licensed lender can, after looking at your credit and income. Nothing here is a commitment by anyone to lend you anything.

Interest rates come from published national averages for the year you bought, so your actual rate is almost certainly a little different. Property taxes are worked backward from the payment you entered. If you change a figure and the answer moves a lot, that's the honest signal that the figure matters — get the real one before you decide on it.