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Interactive Calculators: Buy or Rent

Given the costs attached to buying a property, it can sometimes be worth renting instead, especially if you are only planning to live in your new home for a short period of time.

Fill out the form below to compare the total outlay over a set period of time involved in renting or buying a property of the same value. Hold your cursor over the various fields for a pop-up explanation of what the field value relates to. The fields are initially populated with some default values as a suggestion:

House purchase price

Mortgage loan amount

Annual rent on equivalent property

Rent reviewed every

Buying costs

Selling costs as a % of house price

Annual maintenance costs:

- as owner occupier

- as tenant

Average mortgage interest rate payable

Maintenance costs inflation rate

House price inflation rate