YES - MoneyFormula provides you with a suite of planning reports specifically for your mortgage and investment loan, including the Interest Rate Change Report, the Extra Payments Report, the Loan Payout Options Report, the Fortnightly / Weekly Payments and the Offset Benefits Report, all working off your latest mortgage details and giving you real-time answers to your scenarios to help you plan, cut interest paid, maximise your offset benefits, work out when you can afford to be debt free and keep you motivated to crush your mortgage.
The MoneyFormula Interest Rate Change Report lets you enter a new interest rate to see the impact on your current mortgage. For example, if you have a mortgage with Westpac and your rate is 5.75%, and the RBA announces there will be a 0.25% rate increase which Westpac says it will pass on in full in two week's time, you can go straight into the MoneyFormula interest rate rise report and see what the new rate of 6.00% (a rate increase of 0.25%) will do to your mortgage repayments, so you can start planning from today.
The MoneyFormula Extra Payment report lets you enter an amount to increase (or decrease) your current repayments to see the impact on your current mortgage. For example, if you add $100 to your ANZ mortgage repayments it will instantly show you how much you will save and how many years you will cut off of your loan.
The MoneyFormula Loan Payout Options report is a great way to lock in a debt free date and find out what you have to do to achieve it. You can pick an exact date; or you can choose one of the loan term adjustment options. Once entered you will see the new repayment amount you will need to pay and the interest remaining before your debt is paid off.
For example, if you have 23 years left on your Macquarie Home Loan, you could go in and lock in to be debt free 15 years from now, and MoneyFormula would lock in the date and show you the extra amount you would need to pay. The report automatically adjusts each time you run it, so if you have a bad month (for example, the Australian cost of living taking its toll) and fall behind your target amount slightly it will readjust and show you what you have to pay to catch up.
The MoneyFormula Fortnightly / Weekly Payments report quickly shows you how much you will save if you split your monthly payment amount into fortnightly or weekly payments. It relies on you paying 1/2 the monthly amount per fortnight; or paying 1/4 the monthly amount per week. This savings trick has been around for years, is easy to follow and it works. You end up making one extra monthly repayment over the year which goes towards the principal and reduces your interest.
For example, if your mortgage repayments were $1,000 a month with Aussie Home Loans, you would start paying $500 a fortnight or $250 a week. With monthly payments you would pay 12 * $1,000 = $12,000 a year out of your budget and into your mortgage.
However, with fortnightly payments you would pay 26 x $500 = $13,000 a year, which is $1,000 more. Similarly, with weekly payments you would pay 52 x $250 = $13,000 a year, which is also $1,000 more.
That extra payment ($1,000 in our example above) is the secret weapon to paying down your mortgage faster. It goes directly toward your principal balance, reducing the amount of your loan you're charged interest on. And MoneyFormula calculates these figures and shows you your exact savings for your mortgage at the click of a button.
The MoneyFormula Offset Benefits report will let you work out how much you can save using an offset account. Whether you have an offset account with ING, Ubank or any leading Australian mortgage provider, and whether you have a fixed amount that sits in your offset all of the time, or the balance varies throughout the month, you can nominate an average offset balance and instantly see the impact on your mortgage.
You can also enter an amount you want to add regularly in the way of extra payments, so even if you have a low offset balance right now, it will show you the total benefits over time. These days, lenders generally charge extra to add an offset to a mortgage. This report lets you check how much you are likely to save and therefore whether it is worth setting one up.
The huge benefit of using MoneyFormula's specialised mortgage reports and calculators over the online mortgage calculators available (like the Westpac's Home Loan Repayment Calculator, or the CommBank's Mortgage Repayment Calculator, or the Aussie Home Loans' Interest Rate Change Calculator), is that as you are already tracking your mortgage in MoneyFormula so it knows your exact balance, repayments, interest rate and term remaining, so at the click of a button you can get all the results you need.
Unfortunately, most online calculators make you re-enter your mortgage details every time you want to use them, even for the simplest of answers, and they often assume you want to take out a new mortgage (the bank wants to sign you up to) and therefore they don't always work on your mortgage that is partially repaid.
The great thing with the MoneyFormula integrated mortgage reports and calculators is that they have been specifically designed to work with all Australian mortgages. So it doesn't matter whether your mortgage is with one of the big bank lenders like the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Westpac, NAB, ANZ, Macquarie Bank or ING, or if you are with a non-bank lender like Liberty Finance, Pepper Money, Bluestone Home Loans, Qantas Home Loans or an AFG funded mortgage, MoneyFormula will easily crunch your numbers and keep you one step ahead.
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