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When to Buy.

We'll tell you.

Set your target home, income, and monthly budget. We monitor rates and prices — and alert you the moment your dream home becomes affordable.

8 years of HMDA data · the 100 largest lenders · cancel anytime
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FRC Alert
Personal affordability.
Rate + price + your income.
Step 1
Target city & home price
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Or enter a custom price above
Step 2
Your annual income
$
Step 3
Your max comfortable monthly payment
$
📊 Your Affordability Snapshot — Today
Current est. monthly payment
Your budget
Gap to affordability
Rate needed to hit your budget
Not affordable ✅ Affordable

How FRC Affordability Alert Works

1

You set your target

Enter your city, target price, income, and max monthly payment. We calculate exactly where you stand today — and how far you are from affordable.

2

We monitor monthly

Every month, we recalculate your affordability score based on current mortgage rates and local price trends. When something changes significantly, we run the numbers.

3

You get the alert

"Austin affordability improved 6% this month. Your target home is now $180/month closer to your budget." You'll know before anyone else in your network.

4

You buy at the right time

When your target hits your budget, you're already pre-informed — not scrambling. Ask Zai for the next steps the moment you get the green light.

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The part almost nobody publishes free

Prices and rates are widely reported. Whether a lender says yes is not. In the complete 2025 federal record, denial rates across the 100 largest FHA lenders ran from 1.8% to 78.7% — same programme, same year.

And it is not simply who applies where: standardizing on state, loan amount, income, debt-to-income and loan-to-value, applicant mix explains only a 2.7× range in expected outcomes.

Which lenders approve most → Your metro → Denied? →

CFPB HMDA 2025, computed by FinanceRateCalc. Covers the highest-volume lenders published per market, not all lenders. Historical observations, not predictions. CC BY 4.0, not independently reproduced.

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