Our current mortgage is up for a refinance in a few months. With the interest rates going crazy(!) now, I wanted to see how our repayments would be impacted if we started making overpayments.
Unfortunately, online bank calculators don’t help you calculate this, so I made my own mortgage calculator with overpayments using Excel!
I’ll walk you through how to build a calculator yourself, alternatively, scroll down to the bottom of the article for a free download.
How To Build A Mortgage Calculator With Overpayments
Set Up The Inputs Section
As I advocate in best practice modeling, we will set up a clear inputs section and lay out the spreadsheet with a clear logical calculation flow.
The first three inputs we need are:
- Loan amount – the outstanding balance of your mortgage today
- Loan Term – how many years are remaining on your loan
- Interest rate – the interest rate on your loan
With these three inputs, you can calculate your monthly repayment (assuming no additional extra payments). We will use the PMT function for this “=PMT(D9/12,D8*12,D7)”. Remember to use the same monthly periodicity with the interest rate and the number of periods.
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Create Mortgage Amortization Schedule
Next, we create our calculation table for the mortgage. To show the loan payments and balance in a clear manner, we can create an amortization schedule. This will also allow you to input overpayments at key dates.
- Month – The default template is 360 periods, but feel free to extend/delete as needed.
- Loan Balance – This is the opening loan balance. The first period is the total loan amount and all the following periods are equal to the previous period’s closing balance.
- Periods Remaining – We use the NPER function to determine how many periods are remaining on the loan. If you make an extra payment, this will re-calculate the remaining periods based on the original monthly payment.
- Principal Payment – PPMT function (=PPMT($D$9/12,1,D14,C14)) to calculate the principal payment paid off every month.
- Interest Payment – IPMT function (=IPMT($D$9/12,1,D14,C14)) to calculate the interest paid every month. This can help you compare how much savings you will make on interest if you pay your mortgage off faster
- Overpayments – this is highlighted differently and set up as an input column. Input any extra payments you make against the mortgage here.
- Closing balance – Loan balance less principal payment less overpayments.
In the worked example, there is a Balance without overpayments calculation in column J. This has been charted against the amortization schedule above and will help you visualize how much faster you can pay down your debt.
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