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Buying a new house in South Africa or just looking
for a better home loan or
mortgage rate.
Current Interest Rate
The Prime Lending Rate is currently 11% as of May 2009.
What is Interest:
Interest is a fee that is paid when you borrow money, and is calculated on a yearly basis. Generally it is always expressed in a percentage amount through the term of the loan.
To keep it really simple
If you borrow R 100 000.00 at an Interest rate of 13% per annum, you will pay R 13 000.00 interest if the loan period was for 1 year.
On a typical loan the repayment and interest is due monthly so to pay of R 100 000.00 you would have 12 repayments of R 9416.667 to clear the loan.
Example
Loan R 100 000.00
Interest R 13 000.00
Total R 113 000.00
Divided By 12
Equals R 9416.667
This all sounds really simple but it doesn't work like this because the interest is calculated on the balance of the loan at the end of every month. So the actual interest on R 100 000.00
over a year would be R 7180.76 with the monthly repayments being R 8931.73.
Long Term Loans
This gets a little more complicated and the use of a loan or home loan calculator is recommended when working out long term loans,
links to all the banks calculators can be found in our Homeloans Tip section.
But to sum it up the repayments on a long term loan are far less.
Example
Loan - R 100 000.00
Interest - 13%
Loan Period - 20 Years
Monthly Repyments - R 1171.58
Total Interest Payable over term of Loan R 181179.20
Total amount Paid over term of Loan R 281179.20
To Conclude
The shorter the term of the loan - the less the interest you will pay. Always thake this in to account when borrowing money.
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