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Cash needed
How much money do I need to move house?
The answer is not simply your deposit. A realistic cash requirement combines the deposit with property tax, legal and mortgage fees, surveys and moving costs, then accounts for any usable equity released from your existing home.
A simple way to think about it
Deposit + purchase costs + moving costs − usable sale equity = additional cash required.
If your sale equity exceeds those costs, the result instead shows the estimated equity remaining after the move.