Cost of Selling a House Calculator

This calculator works out the all-in cost of selling a house in New Zealand and shows the net proceeds you walk away with once every cost is taken out of the sale price. Sellers tend to focus on the price they hope to achieve and forget how much of it is eaten up getting there, with the result that the cheque at settlement is smaller than expected. By far the largest cost is real estate agent commission, commonly around two and a half to four percent of the sale price plus GST, which on a typical New Zealand home is tens of thousands of dollars on its own. Around it sit marketing and advertising, your lawyer's conveyancing fee, and any money spent on staging, presentation or pre-sale repairs to lift the price. You enter the expected sale price, the commission rate, and your marketing, legal, staging and repair costs, and the calculator totals your selling costs and subtracts them from the sale price to show your net proceeds. Use it to compare agency commission structures, to decide whether presentation spend is worth it, and to know the real figure you will have to put toward your next purchase or mortgage. It excludes any tax and your mortgage payoff. Figures are estimates only, not advice.

Commission attracts 15% GST; check if your quoted rate includes it. Excludes tax and mortgage payoff. Estimate only, not advice.