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The Home Financial Calculator is more than a simple caculator, this 4-in-1 calculator does more than just calculating the monthly instalment for your mortgage (most of the bank's online calculators do that). It consists of four (4) very useful tabs of financial information and analysis.
Our calculators will help you determine loan amounts, mortgage qualification, affordability or whether you should be renting or buying.
Complete the fields below and click Calculate Now. To view the results of each calculation, click on the various tabs. To email yourself a copy of the results, click the Receive this Detailed Analysis link. |
Mortgage. Upon input of your Loan Amount, Loan Interest Rate, etc, this tab calculate the monthly instalment amount as well as taking Property Tax and Home Insurance into consideration. In other words, the total amount you will need monthly in order to own this house.
Qualification. Based on your monthly Home Loan Repayment and other Debt Repayment, calculated on your Cost of Home, Property Tax, and Current Debt Liabilities, and benchmark against two financial guages of GDS Ratio & TDS Ratio, thereby recommend what your Annual Income should be if you are to purchase a property of this value.
Affordability. Basing on your Monthly Income level, it proposes what would the value of a property that you can afford calculated with TDS Ratio. Your downpayment available and hence the loan amount that you will require.
Rent vs Buy. Whether it is better to purchase or lease? Lastly, this tab based on your input projected Rental Income and other factors, it analyses whether you should Buy or Rent this property.
Glossary
- Terms In Years - number of years you intended Loan Period (usually 30 yrs max)
- Interest Rate - Banks' Home Loan Interest Rate. In Singapore it used to be only Fixed or Variable Rates, recently financial institutions peg their rate to SOR or SIBOR for home loan. (e.g. 3-mth SOR + 1.25% => 0.88% + 1.25% => 2.13%)
- Cost Of Home - the price of the property you intended to purchase.
- Down Payment - Your available cash and CPF for down payment.
- Annual Insurance - (Monthly Mortgage Insurance + Fire Insurance) x 12 months (Optional Input)
- Property Tax - You can leave this input blank if unknown. IRAS projected annual rental income of the property, tax rate 10% for investment property, 4% for owner occupy.
- Monthly Income - Errrr... No need to explain right??
- Monthly Debt - Your monthly fixed liability. Credit bills, car instalment, energy & water bills, kids expenses, etc.
- Gross Debt Service Ratio (GDS) - Recommeded benchmark at 30%. (Annual Mortgage Payment + Property Tax) / Gross Annual Family Income
- Total Debt Service Ratio (TDS) - Recommended benchmark at 40%. (Annual Mortgage Payment + Property Tax + other Debt & Liability in Annual) / Gross Annual Family Income
- Monthly Rent - Projected Rental Income for the property.
- Annual Rental Increase - Based on Q4 FY08 URA release, Singapore rental yield is negative 0.9%. Hence input a low value of 0~0.5 as a guide.
- Monthly Renter Insurance - Optional. Input zero. I don't buy Renter Insurance....
- Savings or Investment Rate - Banks deposit rate. Either Fixed Deposit of Flexi Deposit. (Fixed D of 24 mth stands at 1% max for all banks, so input as 1)
- Yearly Appreciation on the Home - Q4 FY08 Singapore residential property prices depreciate by 5.7%. (In normal times is about 2.5%)
Still have doubt? Need explanation?
Please feel free to contact Ronnie Chong now.
Written & Edited by Ronnie Chong
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