Thoroughbred Home Loans - Repayments
When you take out a Thoroughbred Fixed
or Floating Rate Home Loan, you
have the following repayment choices:
Table
Table repayments (the most common option) are more stable than other payment options.
The total amount of interest that must be paid over the duration of the loan is
added to the principal, and then divided into equal repayments over the term of
the loan.
With table repayments:
- You will know what your repayments will be so budgeting becomes easier.
- The proportion of principal and interest in each of your repayments changes over
time. Early on, you are paying more interest than principal. So if you sell your
home within a year or two, the principal may not have substantially reduced. As
the principal is reduced over time you will gradually increase the equity in your
home.
- You can choose weekly, fortnightly or monthly payments.
- You can choose table repayments on Thoroughbred
Fixed Interest Rate or Thoroughbred
Floating Interest Rate Home Loans
Straight line
The amount of principal you are borrowing is divided into equal repayments over
the term of the loan, and then interest is applied to each of these repayments.
Each repayment includes the same amount of principal, so as the total principal
reduces, so does the interest charged. This way the repayments reduce a little each
time.
With straight line repayments:
Interest only
On an interest only loan you only pay the interest each repayment and must repay
the principal, or amount borrowed, at the end of the loan term.
With interest only repayments:
- Because you are not paying off principal over the term of the loan, interest only
home loans are most suitable if you are expecting some capital gain to help you
pay off the principal at the end of the interest only term - from a sale of your
investment property, for example
- You can choose a one to ten year term
- You pay back your interest only loan on a monthly basis
- You can choose interest only repayments on
Thoroughbred Fixed Interest Rate or
Thoroughbred Floating Interest Rate Home Loans.
Interest only repayments are often popular with people buying residential
rental properties.
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