Re: another house question
Using the "old" conservative lending rule of 28% of your annual income to service the mortgage, property taxes, and insurance, with a 20% down payment on a 500K house (I'm using this house value to make the numbers easy), you would get for your annual payments:
30-yr fixed-rate 400K mortgage at 6% => $28,800
property taxes at 1% of market value => 5,000
homeowners insurance (estimate) => 1,000
total annual expense => $34,800
required annual income = 34.8 / 0.28 = 124.3K
(home value) / (annual income) = 4
(mortgage) / (annual income) = 3.2
You can adjust the numbers for your specific situation, but the ratios should be about the same. I think the 2.5 and 2 ratios came from a time when mortgage rates were higher.
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