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Adding a Mortgage Calculator to Your Site

Real estate web users often wonder what they can afford. They may not care as much about what the house prices is but whether or not they can handle the monthly payment. After shopping for a home agents can give these users a brief idea of where they stand. Obviously, financing is a lender's job but users can set their own expectations somewhat if they see a realistic example of what their hard earned dollar can buy. Here are some solutions for providing a simple mortgage calculator on your site. Some of these are free, some have a price tag attached, some you can simply link to and some require a bit of java script or code addition.

I typically prefer to have a calculator on my own site to keep the user there. However, I need it to stay simple so if a user wants something more advanced they can visit a site (pops up in a new window) with those advanced features.

What other mortgage calculator solutions do you recommend?

After using any of these calculators above what is your feedback?

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Posted by Agent Web Design on 02/27/2007 07:44 PM

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14 Comments on Adding a Mortgage Calculator to Your Site

We happen to be affiliated with a mortgage lender/broker so I am using his site as the calculator and the pre-qual is a link that goes rught to him, we work close togther so he gets the lead and keeps them with me. I think a close connection is helpful because the buyer can then take the next step easlily

02/28/2007 07:52 AM

by Tom Burland (Coldwell Banker)

That sounds like a great working relationship. Thanks for the idea.

02/28/2007 09:18 AM

by Agent Web Design (Specialists Real Estate)

Try www.mortgage-site-tools.com they have 21 calculator types available for use with ASP or PHP driven websites. One unique feature we use at www.moorehomesales.com/calculators/ is that you can have the results emailed to you as a PDF file. We use that feature to collect potential leads from our site. It was simple to integrate into the look of our website and has been a boon to us.

07/03/2007 08:53 PM

by Bud Hammerton (Moore & Associates)

Cool, thank for sharing.

07/09/2007 11:33 PM

by Frank Harris (Keller Williams Realty Centre)

Bud: Thanks for the additional info. Sounds like a great set of tools.

Frank: Yep, yep, yep.

07/19/2007 12:56 PM

by Agent Web Design (Specialists Real Estate)

You will find free tools to add too your website (news and story feeds, mortgage calculators, basics and rate feeds) at http://www.mortgageloan.com/mortgage-tools. The tools are easy to add to your website.

09/07/2007 02:43 AM

by David

I created a few widgets. Just copy and paste into your website. Simple!

Free Mortgage Calculators

09/15/2007 01:19 PM

by Stan Lee (MortgageSum)

Mortgage101.com also has a great set of tools that you can integrate into your site. Click here view some of there mortgage calculator

http://activerain.com/blogsview/50595/Adding-a-Mortgage-Calculator

10/15/2007 11:22 AM

by Michael

We also provide 10 FREE Mortgage Calculators here: http://www.ipagio.com/free-mortgage-calculator-for-website.php, but we also have Free Mortgage Tools here: http://www.ipagio.com/mortgage-marketing-tool.html

Thanks!

Trace.

11/26/2007 11:09 PM

by Trace

Thanks, we have been looking for a good mortgage calculator to add on. Bookmarked.

11/30/2007 11:59 PM

by Kenna & Co. Real Estate

I have some quick and easy ones you can add to your site.

http://www.mortgagesum.com/mortgagewidget/

12/13/2007 03:57 AM

by Stan

Ooops. Here is the link again. Mortgage Calculators

12/13/2007 03:58 AM

Karl's mortgage calculator is very useful due to its charting capabilities, interest rate summaries and sliding bars. Another good website is www.2mortgageloancalculator.com with mortgage calculators that take into account annual private mortgage insurance, property taxes and more.

05/09/2008 01:02 AM

by Peter

to my mind, the only way to evade mortgage fraud is to use http://www.fizber.com/sale-by-owner-home-services/mortgage-calculators.htm/ online mortgage calculator on the website of Fizber.

07/17/2008 09:12 AM