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How do I calculate my home loan repayments?

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How do I calculate my home loan repayments?

Calculating your home loan repayments can help you to ensure you’re balancing your household budget and choosing the right home loan for your needs.


One of the easiest ways you can calculate your home loan repayments right now is through Reduce Home Loans’ Mortgage Repayment Calculator.


But while this may take the hard work out of discovering and comparing repayment amounts, it’s important homeowners understand how key factors of a home loan impact the repayment amount, and how to reduce their repayments accordingly.


Reduce Home Loans’ offers several home loan repayment calculators that allow everyday Australians to not just calculate mortgage repayments, but also:

  • Calculate the difference extra repayments may make, or
  • Calculate how much using an offset account could reduce the interest repayments.

Factors that impact your home loan repayments

Calculating your home loan repayments is all about looking at the loan amount (principal), the interest rate, the loan term and the loan frequency. These are some of the most significant loan details that can impact the amount you repay for your home loan.


Factors like the potential fees and charges of a home loan will impact the total cost of the loan, but these are not generally charged on a monthly basis. It’s still crucial that you compare the fees and charges of a home loan before applying to understand the true cost of a loan.


For example, while one home loan may advertise a low interest rate, it may charge a higher-than-average annual fee, which outweighs the benefits of the competitive rate. This is where a comparison rate may come in handy.


Comparison rates are one way to gauge the true cost of a loan as they take into consideration the interest rate as well as most of the fees involved, such as an establishment fee and the annual fee.


Keep in mind that comparison rates are based on a slightly-outdated loan amount of $150,000 over 25-years as they were proposed when the average mortgage size was considerably smaller than today.


But they can still indicate if a home loan is charging high fees and which may be better for your home loan repayments if the comparison rate is considerably higher than the advertised rate.


How to calculate interest on a home loan

Generally speaking, home loan interest is calculated daily and charged monthly on a specified due date by the lender.


It may also be charged weekly or fortnightly, depending on your repayment frequency. This means that each day, your home loan lender will multiply your interest rate by the outstanding home loan amount, and divide by 365 days to calculate daily interest.


For example, if a homeowner had a 25-year $500,000 home loan with an interest rate of 2.5%, you would calculate as follows:

  • ($500,000 x 0.025) ÷ 365 = $34.25


To discover how much this hypothetical homeowner would pay each month, simply multiply this daily interest charge by the number of days in the month.

  • $34.25 x 30 = $1,027.40 in interest


This is the amount the homeowner would pay in interest on top of their principal amount in a month. If the homeowner was making interest-only repayments, this would be the total home loan repayment they would pay.


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