Here’s How Much Money You’ll Keep After Selling a House
How much money do you keep after selling a house? Knowing what you’ll walk away with can help you plan your next move.
Perhaps you bought your house years ago and after an arduous purchase process, thousands spent on maintenance, and painstaking dedication to making it feel like home, you now want to reap the full benefits at selling time. You may be wondering, “How much money do I keep after selling a house?”
One pitfall of having high expectations for how much you’ll pocket is overestimating your home’s value and underestimating the costs involved in the selling process. In this post, we’ll examine all the finer details that go into how much money you’ll pocket when the transaction is said and done.
How Much Is Your Home Worth Now?
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Start with a home value estimate
One of the first steps in assessing how much money you’ll keep after selling your house is determining its possible market value. A quick and painless way to do this is to use HomeLight’s Home Value Estimator to find out what your home might really be worth.
This free automated valuation model (AVM) tool uses recent sales transactions, local market trends, and your home’s latest selling price, to provide a preliminary range of value for your property in under two minutes. Just enter your address to get started.
The estimate is a ballpark indicator of how you might set the sale price. However, keep in mind that the sale price is different than the amount you’ll walk away with, but we’ll get more into those details later.
