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Utah home and mortgage calculators

Quick estimators for the money questions that come up when you buy, move, or sell in Utah. Every tool shows its assumptions and gives illustrative estimates only. When you want numbers built around your situation, I am one call away.

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Which calculator answers your question?

Thirteen tools is a lot to scan by name, so start with the question on your mind. I have sorted them the way a move actually unfolds: what you can buy, how you get from one home to the next, and what a sale leaves in your pocket. Each calculator opens with its assumptions in plain view, and every figure inside is a starting point you can change.

When you are moving between homes

If you already own, the hard part is the overlap: two homes, two timelines, and the cash caught in between.

Most people in this spot run three tools together: an equity read on the home they have, a net sheet on the sale, and an affordability check on the next one. The three above tie those pieces to a calendar and to your monthly budget.

When you are selling

Before you list, three numbers matter most: what you would net, what you have built, and whether the timing favors now.

Still deciding which one fits? Tell me where you are and I will point you to the right starting tool, then help you read what it gives back.

Buying a home


Calculators for buyers

Three loan types, the Utah assistance program, and the two questions that come before any of them: what a budget can support, and whether buying beats renting for the years you plan to stay. For anyone waiting on rates, the third row prices a seller-paid temporary buydown and the concession to ask for. Every result is an illustrative estimate with the assumptions shown.

Loan type

Conventional mortgage

Build a full monthly scenario for a conventional loan, with taxes, insurance, mortgage insurance that drops off on its own, seller concessions, extra payments, and the payoff timeline.

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FHA mortgage

Model an FHA scenario with the upfront and annual mortgage-insurance mechanics built in, a county loan-limit check, and an honest read on how long that insurance stays on the loan.

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VA loan

Work the funding fee out from your down payment and your history with the benefit, roll it into the loan or pay it at closing, and see the full payment with no mortgage-insurance line at all.

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Utah program

Down-payment assistance

See how the Utah Housing two-loan structure works, what the second loan adds to the payment, and an honest look at the cash you still bring to closing.

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Budget

How much can you afford?

Work backward from income and monthly debts to a price range using illustrative debt-to-income guidelines, and see whether income or debt load is the limit holding it down.

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Decision

Rent vs. buy

Compare renting and buying year by year over the time you plan to stay, and find the point where owning pulls ahead, with every assumption in your control.

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For buyers waiting on rates

Temporary buydown

If the rate is the reason you are waiting, run this before you decide. A seller-paid 2-1 buydown lowers the payment for the first two years while your note rate stays fixed, and in a buyer's market it is a normal thing to ask for. See what each structure costs, whether the seller's concession limit covers it, and how a conventional loan and an FHA loan compare at your credit score, then send the link to your agent with the ask already worked out.

You enter

  • Price, down payment, and credit band
  • Both rates and the structure you want: 3-2-1, 2-1, 1-1, or 1-0
  • Taxes, insurance, any HOA, and whether closing costs join the ask

You get back

  • Every year's payment on both loans, and what the seller pays each year
  • The concession to ask for, checked against each program's limit
  • Where FHA starts to win, and what the same dollars would do as a price cut
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Not sure which loan type is yours? The mortgage calculators all start from the same home price and taxes, so open two side by side and compare the payment and the cash to close. Tell me a little about your situation and I will tell you which one to run first.

Moving home


Calculators for the move

Going from one home to the next is two problems wearing one coat: the timing and the cash. The first two lay the whole move out on a calendar so you can see the gap month before you are standing in it. The third follows the money through the sale, the debts it could clear, and the next payment, so you see your monthly picture before the move beside the one after it.

Timing and cash

Buy before you sell

Sets the sell-first path against a coordinated buy-first plan and prices the difference. It knows what a contingent offer tends to cost you on the next home, what a bridge loan or a home equity line costs to carry, and what a month of overlap or a month in temporary housing adds up to, so the choice is made on the numbers rather than on nerves.

You enter

  • What your home is worth and what you owe
  • The price of the next one
  • How many months the two might overlap

You get back

  • The cost of each path, side by side
  • The equity you can actually reach
  • Whether carrying both payments is realistic
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Cash and monthly cost

Downsize cash

Lines up the home you have against a smaller one and follows the money through the whole move: what the sale nets after the real costs of selling, what the next purchase takes at closing, what is left in hand, and how your monthly housing cost changes. A long-term view shows what that freed-up cash could become if it sat invested rather than in a bigger house.

You enter

  • Your current home's value and payoff
  • The price of the smaller home
  • How much of the proceeds you would put down

You get back

  • Cash in hand after both closings
  • New monthly cost against today's
  • A year-by-year view of the difference
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Debts, equity, and the next payment

Financial transition

Rebuilds your payment today from the mortgage statement, adds every monthly debt you carry, then follows the equity through a sale: what it nets after selling costs, which debts it clears, what goes down on the next home, and what that home costs each month at a current rate. The result is your total monthly picture before the move beside the one after it, which is the honest test of whether a home that no longer fits is worth trading even when the new rate is higher than the one you have.

You enter

  • Your balance, rate, years left, and escrows
  • What the home would sell for
  • Every monthly debt, with a plus button for more
  • The price of the next home

You get back

  • Your total each month, today and after the move
  • Which debts the sale clears, and the cash left over
  • What the higher rate really costs, and how much the payoffs offset
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Both tools carry the same honest caveat: an online value estimate for your current home can miss by a real margin on unusual lots, view positions, and finished basements. When the answer starts to matter, get a real valuation and run the numbers again.

Loan education

Want the loan types explained first?

These are calculators, not explainers. Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, jumbo, and the rest are explained in plain English in the mortgage guides on this site, one hub for choosing the loan and one for the process from pre-approval to keys.

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Behind the numbers


Built the way a lender thinks, handed to you with the controls

I am a mortgage lender and a REALTOR, and for years I ran these numbers for clients on a legal pad before we ever sat down. The calculators on this page are that legal pad, cleaned up and put online, so you can test a decision on your own time and before you have to talk to anyone.

Most of the people who use them are deciding from another state, which shapes how they are built. They lean on Utah specifics a national tool skips: the primary-residence exemption that cuts a property-tax bill, the sliding-scale title insurance, the county loan limits, the Utah Housing second loan. And they are honest about what they do not know, which is why an automated home value shows a band instead of one exact figure.

Four things are true of every tool here.

One set of Utah numbers

Every calculator reads the same file of market figures: the reference rate, county tax and insurance rates, the title-insurance scale, the program fee schedules. When I update a number, all twelve tools change together, and the date beside each rate tells you when that was.

Every assumption is yours to change

A rate, an appreciation figure, a commission: each is a starting value, labeled as an assumption, and each one is editable. The value of these tools is in watching how the answer moves when your inputs move, not in any single number they open with.

Estimates, never quotes

Nothing here is a pre-approval, an appraisal, a title commitment, or an offer to lend. The same plain-English disclosure sits on every tool, always in view and never behind a fold, and it travels with the numbers when you share them.

Nothing to sign up for

No account, no email gate, no phone number. The mortgage calculators can hand you a link that carries your exact numbers, so you can save a scenario or send it to someone, and the site keeps no copy of it.

Using the results


From an estimate to a plan you can use

A calculator is a fast way to test a decision before you commit to it. Here is how to read what these tools hand back, and how to turn a screen of estimates into a plan you can act on.

How to read what comes back

Every number on the screen is either something you typed or a starting value I set to get you moving, and each one is editable. The defaults are a reasonable place to begin, not a forecast and not a quote. Change a field or move a slider and the result updates, which is the whole point: the answer you want is the one that holds up when the inputs shift.

Where a result leans on an interest rate or an appreciation assumption, that figure is labeled as something you control, never a promise. Where it leans on a home value, remember an automated estimate carries a range. It can miss on unusual lots, acreage, view positions, finished basements, and outbuildings, which is why the equity tool draws a band around the number instead of pretending to one exact figure.

None of these outputs is a pre-approval, an appraisal, a title commitment, or an offer to lend. They point you in a direction, and the closer your inputs sit to your situation, the closer the estimate lands.

What to bring when we talk it through

When you want numbers built around your situation instead of round starting values, a short conversation gets you there faster than another hour of sliders. A few things sharpen it:

  • Your timeline. When you want to move, and whether a sale and a purchase have to line up.
  • For a purchase, a rough sense of income and the monthly debts that show on a credit report, since those set the range more than the price of any one home.
  • For a sale, your most recent mortgage statement for the payoff figure, plus a list of what you have put into the home since you bought it.
  • What you care about most: the price, the timing, or keeping the move simple. Trade-offs are easier to weigh once I know which one you are steering toward.

From there the estimate becomes a plan. On financing I can walk through what your numbers support as your lender. On a sale, in Iron, Washington, Kane, Garfield, and Beaver counties I am your listing agent; elsewhere in Utah I connect you with a vetted partner agent who knows that market, with the referral relationship disclosed up front. I am licensed on both the lending and the brokerage side, and I never fill both roles on the same purchase, with every role put in writing. You can see exactly how that works on how I work.

These tools give general estimates and are illustrative only. They are not legal, tax, investment, or financial advice, and not a quote, offer, or commitment to lend. Consult a qualified professional for guidance specific to your situation.


Want numbers that fit your move?

The tools here are a starting point. When you are ready for real numbers and a plan that fits your situation, let's talk it through together.