The choice between buying a home and renting one is among the biggest financial decisions that many adults make.

But the costs of buying are more varied and complicated than for renting, making it hard to tell which is a better deal. To help you answer this question, our calculator takes the most important costs associated with buying a house and computes the equivalent monthly rent.

TransUnion: 1.5M hit by mortgage crisis can re-enter housing market in next 3 years.

More than 1.5 million homebuyers negatively impacted by the financial crisis could potentially re-enter the mortgage market in the next three years, according to a new study from TransUnion.