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Overpaying on mortgage - How is term reduction calculated?

Just for some example figures: Original Term: 25 Years Loan Amount: £100,000 Interest rate: 2% I'm trying to make an excel table which keeps track of my mortgage payments including overpayments. ...
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What is the formula for calculating the total cost of a loan with extra payments towards the principal?

If I have a 30 year mortgage of $200,000 with an APR of 4.446% I can calculate how much my monthly payment will be and how much the total cost of the loan will be. But what if I have an extra $200 to ...
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How do I determine how long it will take to pay off my all my loans?

Right now I have a spreadsheet with the loans I have, the interest rates the are each at, and how much I am putting toward each in monthly payments. I then calculate how long each loan will take to ...
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Why the calculated cost of a loan is less than expected? Is the bank working at a loss?

Let's say I want to borrow $1000 from a bank at an interest rate of 12% per year, for one year. The number of payments in this case is equal to 12 (one year * months per year) and the interest rate ...
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Loan repayment calculation and monthly compounding interest problem

I need to write a mock up application that returns a quote to potential borrowers. The specification says that "The monthly and total repayment should use monthly compounding interest". Program ...
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How to calculate monthly payment of a loan

I am trying to solve this question: Your brother-in-law asks you to lend him $100,000 as a second mortgage on his vacation home. He promises to make level monthly payments for 10 years, 120 payments ...
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Please help me calculate interest on a loan

My Ex owes me $66000 and I need to give him a payment plan with 8% interest over 5 years. The monthly repayments need to tier roughly as follows (he's going to earn more in the 2nd and 3rd years and ...
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Pay off student loans vs pay myself and try to get PSLF? (is my math right?)

I am trying to decide between paying off my student loans in 5 years vs attempting to quality for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which I could conceivably do in 5 years. My options are to 1) ...
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Can anyone help me understand my loan payment?

My loan was $40500 for five years with 9% interest per year. I do not understand the total I would have to pay. I have been paying 700 per month since 2006 and it feels like I've been paying forever. ...
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How to know how much interest paid per payment in a fixed tenor personal loan

I recently took up a personal loan. I do not have any financial background and I do not have any issue paying the loan but I am just curious on how they come out with some numbers. To be precise, the ...
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How to compare loans of same principal, same interest but with different tenors

I have a scenario where there are 2 loans that can be provided (assuming I am providing the loan). The principal amount is the same, 30,000 in case of both the loans. The interest is also same at 17%. ...
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How to calculate the number of months until a loan is paid off (given principal, APR and payment amount)?

Does anyone know what formula they use for this When will you be debt-free? calculator? I want to put it in a Google Spreadsheet, but I can't find a payments-to-debt-free formula using my Google ...
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Calculating interest and Principal Paid using TI-84

How do I calculate the net quantity of interest on a loan, and the net quantity of the principal on the loan, that I have paid off after a given number of payment periods in the finance app on a TI-84 ...
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What is the formula for loan payoff date?

My goal is to calculate loan payoff date. Actually I'm making a wordpress plugin to calculate that. I made a form from I can have following inputs from user. Current Loan Information Original ...
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Effective Interest Rate from bifurcated interest rate

Here goes, this is the scope of my question: Say I want to take out a credit card, that has 0% interest for 12 months, when at the 13th month, whatever debt is taken out on the card will be subjected ...
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