Buying a house for ~900K in one of the Boston suburbs - my household income is ~230K. Am I stretching too far?

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I'm single and just bought a $500k house on $170k salary, and I could have easily afforded more. I think you should be fine.

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Household income of 580k and settled for a 800k house. Could have afforded more but this is enough space with great schools.

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Looking in Boston suburbs as well, and with an HHI of $250k our max is $750k, though I'm not expecting us to spend more than $700k.

What are the taxes? In Sherborn, my property taxes exceeded my Mtgg

The taxes are on the lower side - the way I am looking at that is I am buying more house with the same monthly payouts

Would also recommend looking at property taxes especially if you don’t have kids yet - don’t pay into a school system you won’t use

It is doable but... are you planning to have kids? Any HOA? What will be the tax?

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