HomePath® offers you a variety of calculators to help you figure out how much house you can afford. That's because there are a number of ways to approach an affordability analysis. All these calculators allow you to explore the effects of various changes to your home-buying situation. You can perform a variety of "what-if analyses" to see how various changes to your income, liabilities, and available funds affect your buying power. You can invent a number of "what-if scenarios," helping you see how changes to your mortgage term, mortgage loan amount, available funds and interest rate all directly affect your ability to afford a home.

The How Much is Your Monthly Payment? calculator lets you explore the outcome of changes to your loan balance, mortgage term, and interest rate on your monthly payment.

The How Much House Can You Afford? calculator allows you to see approximately how much money a lending institution will lend you, based on your income and your debts.

The What Monthly Payment is Needed for a House with a Specific Sales Price? calculator lets you get started on exploring how changes to the desired sales price of your home will affect your payments.

The How Much House Can You Afford with a Specific Monthly Payment? calculator lets you begin to understand how your desired monthly payment will affect the price of the house you can afford.

And, the Is Now a Good Time to Refinance? calculator is available if your primary interest is in refinancing your current mortgage loan.

Disclaimer: Fannie Mae does not prequalify borrowers, but we do provide tools such as these calculators that may help you on the path to homeownership. Remember, a lender decides on your mortgage application and loan amount and lender calculations may vary from HomePath calculations. HomePath calculations are solely intended to provide ballpark estimates, not final or binding loan amounts.

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