<prompt> Human: Bought house year ago for 230k now the value is 285k. I havent invested anything into it. Do I take the money and run?  <response>: Well, where would you live? And what would you do with the money?Your cost estate agent fees to sell the house would be about 17kSo your profit would be about 38k. You have not lived in the house for 2 years, so you would not get the capital gains tax exemption on primary residence. Your capital gains tax rate would probably be 15, so the tax would be 5,700.At the end of the day, you would walk away with about 32k and no house, and probably a lot of furniture and stuff with no place to put it.I would just keep the house.Good luck. 