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How to model selling a home and buying another

Use two toggles to sell a home and buy another. The plan does not sell the home on its own.

Planworth does not sell the home when the plan runs short of money. A sale or a downsize is a toggle you add on the scenario. The property has to be in the Evaluation first. See How to add real estate, mortgages & a HELOC.

Sell the current home

  1. Open the client's Financial Insights and confirm Current Scenario.

  2. Select Add Toggle. Create New opens on New Toggle.

  3. Open Sale/Purchase of Assets and select Sell Personal Real Estate. Search toggles... finds it too.

Create New, New Toggle, with Sale/Purchase of Assets open: Sell Personal Real Estate and Purchase Personal Real Estate
  1. Enter a Name and the Start Date.

  2. In Real Estate to Sell, select the property already in the Evaluation.

  3. Enter Realtor Fees. Enter Other Closing Costs Percentage or Other Closing Costs when there are costs besides the realtor fee.

  4. Projected FMV is shown for that date. Check Override Sale Price only when the sale price should differ from that value.

  5. Select Save Toggle.

Sell Personal Real Estate: name, start date, property, realtor fees, closing costs, projected fair market value, and override sale price

Buy the next home

  1. Select Add Toggle again, stay on New Toggle, and select Purchase Personal Real Estate.

  2. Enter Name of Real Estate, Real Estate Beneficial Owner, Purchase Year, Property Use, Type of Ownership, Location, and Purchase Price.

  3. Check First Time Home Buyer when it applies.

  4. Enter Growth Rate, Land Transfer Tax, and any closing costs.

  5. Check Calculate and Use Future Value Amount(s) only when the purchase price should be projected forward.

  6. Select Save Toggle.

Purchase Personal Real Estate: name, owner, purchase year, use, ownership, location, price, growth rate, land transfer tax, and closing costs

Use both toggles in the same year when the sale and the purchase happen together. Review that year in Details for the property, the mortgage, and cash flow.

Whether to sell, the price, and the tax result stay with the advisor.

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