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What Is Amortization?

Understanding what amortization is can be very important when you are purchasing a home for the first or the tenth time. In fact, if you do not know what you are signing on those home loan papers, you shouldn’t sign them at all. Yet, learning about this and other features of the home loan is not hard to do. It’s not a foreign language, just a language that you need to learn in order to purchase a home. The good news is that you will learn most of what you need to know about the mortgage you are about to sign right here on the web.

Amortization is the factoring of a lump sum payment over time. For example, in the home loan, you will work with a lender that will pay for your home in full to the seller. The funds are secured by the home and you must pay them back over the course of time, as defined in the terms of the loan. It is the distribution of the funds into smaller, installment payments over the course of time. When you purchase a home this will be figured out in the schedule that is provided with the home’s loan paperwork.

In an amortization style loan, the funds of the installment payments are broken into pieces that are then applied to the principle and the interest of the loan. In other types of payment systems, this is not the case. But, in such things as a home loan, the payment is broken into how much will be paid to the principle of the loan and how much will be paid on the interest that is due on the loan.

In home loans, the amortization schedule will show you how much of the loan’s monthly payment is going to the principal amount as well as how much is going to the interest that is on the loan. In home loans, this amount is broken down unevenly. In the first years of the loan, the homeowner will pay back a large amount of money each month to the interest side of the loan and a smaller to the principal. As time goes on, this will equal out and then shift to being more repayment to the principal than the interest. This is defined as to how much for each month in this schedule of payments made.

In order to determine just how this will happen over the course of time, you will want to use a mortgage calculator which can be found on the web. These are free of charge to use and have no obligation tied to them. In any case, by punching in the information to the loan that you know, such as the interest rate, the terms and the principal amount borrowed, you will learn just how much interest versus principal will be on the loan. This can also be helpful in allowing you to compare interest rates, compare the amount of monthly payments as well as compare the various terms of the loans you are applying for. Amortization is a very important factor in determining just how much you will pay for your home.

By: Arseniy Olevskiy

Tags: Amortization, Amortization Loan, Amortization Schedule, Amount Of Money, First Years, Foreign Language, Installment Payments, Loan Paperwork
Posted in Finance · October 20th, 2008 · Comments (0)

Simple Interest Rate Amortization Schedules Explained

Amortization schedules are important simply because they show you how each mortgage payment breaks down into its two parts, principal and interest. With this knowledge, you can adjust your payments to include future principal payments which in turn will save you from paying their corresponding interest payments.

This means if a particular payment is split up in such a way that requires $200 in principal and $1000 in interest be paid, you can save the $1,000 by paying the $200 before this payment is due. In making these types of adjustments, you can save tens of thousands of dollars because you will economically be shortening the term of the mortgage.

Simple Interest Vs. Compounded Interest

I have been asked about simple interest amortization schedules. They’re really isn’t too much to explain. The opposite of simple interest is compounded interest. No compounding takes place in the paying of a mortgage. So, all amortization schedules are simple interest. Let’s prove this supposition.

On a $200,000 mortgage at six percent for two years, we can see when looking at this mortgage’s amortization table, the 25th payment has a principal due of $224.42. When we look at the 26th payment we can see that the interest due is $974.68. The total amount due on the mortgage before the 25th payment is paid is $194,936.47. To borrow this amount of money for one month would cost $974.68.

How do we know this? One way is to look at the amortization table and see what the interest is on the 25th payment. Another way to find out would be to calculate this longhand. Here’s how to do that:

$194,936.47 times 6% divided by 12 equals $974.68. Take note that six percent divided by 12 gives us the interest rate for one month. You can easily see there is no compounding taking place here. Here’s what would happen if compounding took place. The amount due monthly on the same mortgage is $1,199.10. If you were to pay this amount of money each month into a savings account whose interest compounded monthly, after 28 years your investment would be $1,046,459.33.

The significance of 28 years is that it is the amount of time from the end of the loan working backward until the 25th payment is due. At the time of this payment, as we previously discussed, the amount due on the mortgage is $194,936.47. So this proves amortization schedules are simple interest.

Interest Only Amortization

Sometimes people mistakenly use the term simple interest when they are referring to interest only. With an interest only loan, no amortization takes place. For instance, $200,000 borrowed at six percent on an interest only loan would require a payment of $1,000 each month. This $1,000 would pay nothing toward the principal, so the loan would not be amortizing. In other words, at the end of any time period from one month until infinity, the amount of principal owed would always be $200,000.

Variable Rate Mortgage Amortization

Another case in mistaken identity is referring to a simple interest amortization schedule when a person wants to refer to an amortization table for fixed interest rate mortgages opposed to a variable interest rate mortgage.

To make an amortization table for a variable interest rate mortgage, you would have to know exactly what the interest rate would be at each point throughout the term of the loan. This is impossible because variable interest rate mortgages are built on the premise the mortgage rate could go up or down. Therefore, there is no such thing as a variable rate amortization table.

So a simple interest rate amortization table is the only amortization schedule available and it is a very important piece of mathematical equations. Knowing how to use it can save you a lot of money on your mortgage. Here’s one way:

Look at the principle on the payment at the halfway point of the schedule. This would be payment number 181 on a thirty-year mortgage. Here, you would look at the principle part of the payment. If you took this amount of money and added it to each monthly payment, your mortgage would be paid in half the time.

By: Edward Lathrop

Tags: Amortization Table, Amount Of Money, Interest Payments, Longhand, Mortgage Payment, Mortgage Table, Supposition, Tens Of Thousands
Posted in Real Estate · June 14th, 2008 · Comments (0)

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