A home equity investment turns part of what your home will be worth into cash you can use today.
There is no interest rate, no monthly bill and no income test. You settle once — when you sell, when you refinance, or when the term ends — and what you owe depends on what your home did in the meantime. You stay on title and go on living in the house. Property taxes, insurance and upkeep remain yours.
No bank is involved and nothing accrues month to month. You are agreeing to share a set percentage of your home’s value at settlement — and this page prices exactly what that costs, at every exit year.
No payment to budget for, and nothing quietly accruing on a statement. The whole obligation sits at the end.
Qualification runs on your equity, your credit and the property — not on a paycheck, tax returns or a debt-to-income ratio.
No prepayment penalty. Buy the share back any time inside the term, which runs at least ten years and can match your first mortgage out to thirty.
Your name stays on title and you go on living in the house. Taxes, insurance and upkeep stay yours too.
Most files come in for one of these.
What it actually costs turns entirely on how long you hold it and how fast your home appreciates — and it is not a small number. Price your own file below and see every outcome, not just the flattering one.
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| Year | Home value | A: equity share | B: safety cap | Homeowner pays | Eff. /mo |
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What the homeowner settles for at each duration, across five paths the property could take. Select any cell to load it into the console above.
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Thickness is the investment as a share of home value. Split is thickness × 2.0, uncapped.
The split is applied to the home's value at exit, not to its appreciation. A 20% split on a $1,000,000 exit value settles at $200,000 whatever the home was worth at origination.
The homeowner pays the lesser of that equity share and the safety cap — the investment compounded at 1.499%/mo. On short holds the cap almost always binds and saves the homeowner substantial money; on long holds the equity share binds.
Effective cost is the monthly rate that turns the investment into the settlement figure, calculated on the investment amount rather than net proceeds.
Annual figures are nominal — the monthly rate times twelve. The cap is quoted as 1.499% per month, so 18% per year. It does compound monthly when the balance is calculated, which is why a long hold produces a very large cap figure, but the headline annual rate is not the compounded equivalent. Because settlement is the lesser of the two methods, effective cost can never exceed 18% per year.
Estimates only. Your actual terms are set by the investor after application, underwriting and appraisal, and may differ from anything shown here.
Everything above is yours to use. No application, no credit pull, nothing recorded anywhere. Move the sliders until you understand the trade.
Call or send the scenario over. I'll tell you what a real offer would likely look like on your file — and if something other than an equity investment serves you better, I'll say so.
Application through funding typically runs two to three weeks. After that there's nothing to pay monthly. You settle whenever you sell, refinance, or buy the share back — no early repurchase penalty.
Nothing. Same rate, same payment, same servicer — the investment records behind it. If you are sitting on a 3% first from 2021, this is the whole point: you keep it. A cash-out refinance would replace that rate with today's.
Not today — you keep title and you keep living there. But be clear about what you are committing to: at settlement you owe a share of what the home is worth then, and that share is double the slice you took. The schedule above prices it at every exit point rather than describing it.
The share cuts both ways. Settlement is a percentage of the value at exit, so if the home is worth less, you owe less. That is real protection, and it is something a loan will never give you — a loan balance does not care what your home did.
Any time inside the term, with no prepayment penalty — at sale, at refinance, or out of pocket. But early is expensive. Because settlement is a share of value rather than an accruing balance, short holds carry the highest effective cost. Look at what the first few rows of the schedule do.
No. There is no income documentation, no employment verification and no debt-to-income test. Eligibility runs on your equity, your credit and the property itself. Scores are considered from 500.
The agreement does not end with you. Your heirs settle it the same way — by selling, refinancing, or buying the share back — under the terms of the agreement. If you are planning around an estate, walk this through with your attorney before you sign anything.
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Need cash out of your home without taking on another monthly payment?
A home equity investment has no monthly payment and no income test, which is why it reaches people conventional lending turns away — under 62, self-employed, retired, credit under 620, high DTI. You still cover taxes, insurance, and upkeep.
It isn't free — the cost lands at settlement, and you've just seen exactly what that looks like. Send me your numbers and I'll walk you through what it means for your situation.
A home equity investment is not a reverse mortgage and not a loan. Nothing accrues monthly; you settle by buying back the equity share when you sell, refinance, or reach the end of the term.