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You’ll also need to know your yearly property taxes, homeowners insurance, PMI, and HOA fees. For these, you can take the full annual cost of each and divide it by 12 to get your approximate monthly ...

Each point will knock your interest rate down by 0.25% to as much as 0.5% (depending on the lender and the specific base rate ...