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Show HN: Calculate mortgage repayments on the fly while browsing Zillow/Trulia (chrome.google.com)
2 points by rdm_blackhole on July 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Hi HN, I made Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension that calculates your (potential) mortgage repayments while browsing listings on Zillow/Trulia/Realestate.com.au/Domain.com.au

The Firefox extension can be found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/real-estate-b...

I realize most people go to their banks first to get a pre-approval and see how much they can borrow and afford but not everyone is like that.

Personally, a big number such as $500000 or $700000 doesn't really speak to me. However if I see something like $634/wk then I can clearly see if I can afford a certain property or not.

Sometimes I like to browse real estate websites and see how much a particular home would cost me on a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly basis.

Most real estate websites allow you to simulate your repayments but it's a manual process and I really wanted to be able to browse while seeing the potential loan repayments.

For the Australian users out there, there are often prices missing on the listings of https://domain.com.au and https://realestate.com.au , in this case I use the marketing range that the websites expose to calculate the repayments.

The extension also tries to highlight which property would be ideal for you based on your deposit and loan interest rate.

The extension stores your data on local storage so nothing is ever sent or stored anywhere else. No need to sign up or create an account either. No analytics whatsoever.

I hope you enjoy it and any feedback is welcome.



Doesn't Zillow have this built in to their site and native app already?


Not that I know of. Maybe on their IOS/Android apps, but this is made for the desktop users.


Go to a listing and scroll down to the Monthly Cost section. There's a full calculator.




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