Why is my home not counted toward independence?

You have to live somewhere, so the home you live in cannot also pay for your groceries. It is recorded for net worth; investment or rental property is counted toward your corpus.

Because its value does not fund your withdrawals. Under Investments → Property, the note says it directly: your primary home isn’t counted toward your independence corpus — you need somewhere to live either way. Investment and rental property is included.

How to enter a property

  1. Press + Add a property.
  2. Under What is it?, name it, and under Where is it?, choose the country.
  3. Answer Do you live there? — Yes — I live here or No — investment or rental. The plan cannot count a property until this is answered.
  4. Under Sell it?, leave Never, or choose At an age, When I move (if you are moving) or When I stop working.
  5. Enter its Value today: what it would sell for now.

Investments

  • India retirement schemes₹12L
    EPF₹8L
    NPS₹4L
  • Cash savings & bank deposits₹20.48L
    Savings account · UAE · AED 40,000₹9.08L
    Savings account · India · emergency fund₹5.4LThe emergency fund — the whole account
    Fixed or term deposit · India₹6L
  • Market investments₹73.86L
    Listed holdings · 5, on 4 markets₹63.86L
    Not listed · typed as one figure₹10L
  • Metals & jewellery₹8L
    Gold jewellery₹8L
  • PropertyNot counted
    Flat in Pune · where you will live₹75LYour home — net worth, not corpus
Everything you hold ₹1.14CrCounted toward your independence corpus ₹1.09Cr
Any class can stay one figure or be broken down. Money set aside as the emergency fund leaves the corpus and sits on the ladder’s first rung instead.

The illustrative household’s flat in Pune is shown under Property as not counted, beside everything that is.

  • Property: Flat in Pune · where you will live — Not counted.
  • Your home — net worth, not corpus.
  • Everything you hold, and the part counted toward your corpus.

Illustrative figures — not anybody’s real plan.

If you plan to sell

Selling the home you live in brings money in at the time you choose. An investment property is already counted in your savings, so selling it instead settles its loan and ends its rent and running costs — the questions about which loan and which rows appear on Living expenses.

Where it still shows

  • The summary at the top of Investments lists it as The home you live in, beside Funds your independence.
  • Its running costs belong in Living expenses. A home you own still carries tax, maintenance, insurance and repairs; Action Items flags a home with no running costs.
  • Its loan belongs under Liabilities, and its repayments are counted every year until it is paid off.

See this in your own plan.

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Last reviewed 1 October 2026.