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2026-09-21 7 min read

Wholesale Assignment Fee Calculator

The assignment fee and what both sides pay at closing for a assignment. Live calculator with worked steps and charts.

Calculator

After-Repair Value (ARV) Help
$

The value once all repairs are complete.

Purchase / Contract Price
$
Assignment Fee(%) Help
%

Fee charged to the end buyer as a share of price.

Assignment Fee Charged
$

This assignment calculator runs on a full rental pro-forma: rent is annualised and reduced by vacancy, every operating expense is itemised to reach NOI, and the loan amortises monthly at the rate entered. Results update live as you type.

Results

Optimal

Assignment Fee

$10,000

Paid by the end buyer to take over your contract.

Fee as % of Contract Price

4.76%

Contract Price

$210,000

After-Repair Value

$360,000

End Buyer's Equity at Closing

$140,000

Value less the contract price and your fee.

End Buyer's All-In Cost

$220,000

Discount to ARV

38.89%

The margin the flipper or landlord starts with.

Live results update as you type — currently showing assignment fee of $10,000. Replace the defaults with your own rent roll, tax bill and insurance quote for an exact comparison.

Visualizations

The End Buyer's All-In Cost

210,000Contract price
10,000Assignment fee
360,000ARV

Loan Balance Over the Term

Fee as % of Price

4.8%
010

Formula

The assignment-fee model computes the fee as a percentage of the contract price or a flat amount, then shows both sides: what the end buyer pays in total and what the seller receives.

Fee = Contract price × Fee % (or the flat fee entered)

Variables

SymbolNameUnitDescription
%Fee percentage% of priceThe fee as a share of contract price
FeeAssignment fee$The dollar amount charged

Explanation

The fee has to fit the deal: high enough to pay for the marketing that produced the contract, low enough that the end buyer still meets their own margin.

Step-by-Step Calculation

Follow each step to understand how the result is calculated from your inputs.

Step 1

Price the fee as a percentage of the contract, or as a flat amount.

Fee = contract × fee % (or the flat amount entered)
Contract:$210,000
Fee %:3.00%
Intermediate: $210,000 × 0.03
Result: $10,000 assignment fee
Step 2

Add it to the price the end buyer pays.

Buyer's cost = contract + fee
Intermediate: $210,000 + $10,000
Result: $220,000 all-in
Step 3

Compare that cost with the value to confirm the deal still works for the buyer.

Buyer's equity = ARV − contract − fee
ARV:$360,000
Intermediate: $360,000 − $210,000 − $10,000
Result: $140,000 equity
Final Answer
$10,000

Worked Examples

See how the calculator works with different scenarios.

Scenario

The wholesale assignment fee calculator run on the values above, showing the full calculation path rather than only the answer.

Inputs

Arv:360000

Calculation

1. Price the fee as a percentage of the contract, or as a flat amount. → $10,000 assignment fee 2. Add it to the price the end buyer pays. → $220,000 all-in 3. Compare that cost with the value to confirm the deal still works for the buyer. → $140,000 equity

Result

Assignment Fee: $10,000

Interpretation

A 3.00% assignment on a $210,000 contract is a $10,000 fee; the buyer’s all-in cost of $220,000 against a $360,000 ARV leaves $140,000 of equity.

Understanding Your Result

Your Result: Assignment Fee: $10,000

Typical range: Assignment fees usually land between 2% and 5% of the contract price on a deal the end buyer still buys at a discount to value.

What This Means

The fee has to fit the deal: high enough to pay for the marketing that produced the contract, low enough that the end buyer still meets their own margin.

Why It Matters

A 3.00% assignment on a $210,000 contract is a $10,000 fee; the buyer’s all-in cost of $220,000 against a $360,000 ARV leaves $140,000 of equity.

Professional Interpretation

A 3.00% assignment on a $210,000 contract is a $10,000 fee; the buyer’s all-in cost of $220,000 against a $360,000 ARV leaves $140,000 of equity.

How this is calculated

The assignment-fee model computes the fee as a percentage of the contract price or a flat amount, then shows both sides: what the end buyer pays in total and what the seller receives.

What drives the result

Each strategy isolates a profit source. Flipping earns the spread between all-in cost and resale. BRRRR earns the value created by rehab, then recovers cash through a refinance. Wholesaling earns a fee for assigning a contract. House hacking converts your own housing cost into investment income.

Recommendations

  • •Disclose the fee to the end buyer — hidden marks destroy a buyer list faster than a thin deal does.
  • •A fee that pushes the buyer above 75–80% of ARV usually means the contract price was too high to wholesale.

Educational Content

Introduction

Beyond buy-and-hold, real estate investors use repeatable playbooks — flipping, the BRRRR loop, wholesaling, house hacking and short-term rentals. Each prices a specific edge: buying below value, adding value with rehab, or monetising a property more intensively.

Concept Explanation

Each strategy isolates a profit source. Flipping earns the spread between all-in cost and resale. BRRRR earns the value created by rehab, then recovers cash through a refinance. Wholesaling earns a fee for assigning a contract. House hacking converts your own housing cost into investment income.

Applications

▸Pricing a flip offer with the 70% rule before the negotiation starts
▸Planning a BRRRR refinance so the cash-out returns your original down payment
▸Modelling whether an Airbnb premium beats a standard lease after cleaning, furnishing and vacancy
▸Testing whether renting out rooms covers the mortgage on a house hack

Benefits

  • •Forces the profit to be priced at offer time, not discovered at closing
  • •Makes the capital recycling of BRRRR explicit: how much cash actually comes back out
  • •Compares active income (wholesaling, flipping) against passive holds on the same page

Limitations

  • •Rehab budgets overrun more often than not — carry a contingency and a timeline buffer
  • •Strategy returns depend on executing in a short window; a slow sale or refinance erases thin margins
  • •Short-term rental income depends on regulation and seasonality that a single occupancy input cannot fully capture

Best Practices

  • •Get contractor bids before the offer, and add 10–20% contingency to whatever they say
  • •Underwrite the refinance at today’s rates and a conservative appraised value — hope is not a financing plan
  • •For short-term rentals, model both a strong and a weak season before buying furniture

Common Misconceptions

Myth: The 70% rule is a valuation.
Truth: It is a screening heuristic that already embeds profit and buying costs; use it to filter listings, then underwrite properly.
Myth: BRRRR means buying with no money.
Truth: It means recovering your capital after adding value — until the refinance closes, your cash is fully at risk.
Myth: Wholesaling requires no capital or licence.
Truth: It requires earnest money at risk, marketing spend, and in many states a licence or disclosure rules — know yours before assigning contracts.

Practical Tips

  • •Quote fees as a percentage on larger deals and a flat fee on smaller ones — buyers see the logic more easily
  • •Double-close instead of assign when the buyer or lender resists assignment fees

Common Mistakes

Assuming every contract is assignable.
Some sellers and most REO/lender contracts prohibit it — read before marketing.

Assumptions

This calculator makes the following assumptions to provide estimates:

Fee survives closing: The fee is paid at closing by the end buyer.

Limitations

Be aware of these limitations when using this calculator:

Limitation: Rehab budgets overrun more often than not — carry a contingency and a timeline buffer
Limitation: Strategy returns depend on executing in a short window; a slow sale or refinance erases thin margins
Limitation: Short-term rental income depends on regulation and seasonality that a single occupancy input cannot fully capture

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about this calculator.

Assignment or double closing — which is better?
Assignment is cheaper (one set of costs) but discloses your fee; double closing hides it but pays two sets of closing costs.
Who uses the wholesale assignment fee calculator?
It is used by rental investors screening and pricing deals, by owner-operators budgeting expenses and rents, and by agents, lenders and advisers sanity-checking the numbers before money moves. It sits in the Strategies group of the Real Estate Investing section of Atlascalcs.
How accurate is the wholesale assignment fee calculator?
Every figure follows from the inputs using standard property underwriting mathematics, so it is accurate to the quality of the values you enter. Lenders, appraisers and tax assessors each apply their own adjustments, so expect small differences against formal documents.
Do I need to sign up or pay to use this calculator?
No. Every Atlascalcs calculator is free, runs entirely in your browser and never asks for an account. Nothing you enter is uploaded or stored.
Can I use these numbers in a formal valuation or loan application?
The calculator is an underwriting aid, not an appraisal or a lender offer. Lenders and appraisers apply their own adjustments, so treat the output as a disciplined estimate to bring to those conversations.
How do I choose realistic inputs?
Pull rent from comparable leases, property tax from the current assessment, insurance from a quote, and management and maintenance from what operators in your market actually pay. Seller pro-formas are marketing documents.

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Assignment Fee
The flat fee a wholesaler charges the end buyer for assigning the purchase contract.

Authoritative References

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Applicable Standards

Level-payment amortisation, payments assumed in arrearsIncome and expenses annualised; percentages entered as annual ratesStraight-line depreciation per IRC §168 recovery periodsMoney rounded for display only; all calculations run at full precision

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Last Updated:

2026-09-21

Version:

2.0.0

License:

Free to use for educational and professional purposes.