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Simple Affordability Calculator

By The Tim on March 6th, 2009 at 6:16 PM · 32 Comments

I’m in Texas for the weekend with limited access to the internet, so unfortunately I was unable to write a substantive post today. However, I did have some time on the airplane to create a javascript version of the basic affordability calculator I developed in Excel a few weeks ago.

Given that home prices are finally starting to come back down into semi-reasonable territory for some, I thought it might be a useful tool to share. For more about affordability, spend some time browsing the affordability tag archive.

Enjoy, and please feel free to share any feedback.

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Pricing Calculator for Today’s Market

By The Tim on August 5th, 2008 at 11:35 AM · 109 Comments

Last night I was tossing around the idea of a calculator that determines a realistic value of a house in today’s market, based on what year it was purchased and how much was paid. This morning I spent some time with javascript, and the result is below.

I welcome any feedback. Keep in mind that this obviously is just a rough approximation based on broad market indices, it does not factor unique circumstances to individual houses, and it does not constitute legal advice, blah blah blah…

Enjoy.

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