■ About Stockstead · Est. 2026

A mortgage
calculator for
people who don’t
need one

01 — The thesis

Most mortgage calculators assume your biggest asset is a savings account. Ours assumes it’s a portfolio you’ve spent a decade not touching — and that selling it is a decision, not a withdrawal.

02 — The question

Should you liquidate, mortgage, or borrow against the portfolio? The honest answer is “it depends”. We just made “it depends” into software.

23.8%
top federal cost on liquidation
LTCG 20% + NIIT 3.8% — before state
$750K
mortgage interest deduction cap
post-TCJA acquisition indebtedness
0
bytes of your data leave the browser
calculator runs client-side
7%
default real expected return
House rules

Four things we refuse to get wrong

Tax math, done properly

Federal + state long-term rates, NIIT, and the income thresholds that flip you between brackets. No hand-waved 15%.

Opportunity cost is a cost

The dollars you sell don’t compound. We show you exactly how much quieter your portfolio gets.

No signup wall

Open a tab, get a number. If you want to save a scenario, then — and only then — sign in.

We tell you when we don’t know

Rates change, margin calls happen, brokers differ. When the answer depends on you, we say so.

Who’s behind it

Built by Tyler Singletary

Stockstead is a tool for a specific decision: when a meaningful share of your wealth lives in a taxable portfolio and you’re sizing a home purchase, what does each financing path actually cost on an after-tax, opportunity-cost-adjusted basis? The calculator answers that with the actual formulas — long-term capital gains brackets, NIIT, state treatment, SBLOC interest, compound growth — instead of the back-of-napkin math most calculators offer.

Tyler founded Stockstead and writes its analysis. He is not a licensed financial advisor or CPA. Stockstead is educational, not personalized advice — for a decision this consequential, talk to a fiduciary and a tax professional before you wire anything.

Ready when you are

Run your numbers.
Keep your compounding.

Open the calculator
No signup. Takes about five minutes.