Home Maintenance Budget Calculator
Work out an annual and monthly home maintenance budget as a percentage of the property value.
Work out the budget
Frequently Asked Questions
A percentage of home value. The 1% rule is a convention rather than a finding, and the page says so.
Use your own, for a period you can actually measure. A calculator like this is only as good as the inputs, and the most common error is using a number that covers a different period or a different set of costs.
No. Everything is worked out in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere or saved.
We do not publish one, deliberately. Benchmarks for these measures vary enormously by sector, stage and how each company defines the inputs, so a number quoted without those definitions tends to mislead more than it helps.