QUOTE(dankers @ Aug 31 2016, 09:15 AM)
hello all,
need some sifus advice here.
Question1
im aware that banks are offering flexi and semi flexi whereby extra lump sum payment is treated as a CAPITAL REPAYMENT thereby reducing interest rate charge and years outstanding. i.e. after lump sum payment, im still paying the same installment amount, but now its shorter. but what i dont understand is how much of interest will it save and exactly how many years outstanding it will reduce. anybody here can share the calculation method please?
Question2
instead of treating my lump sum payment as a mean to reduce year outstanding and interest rate charge, can i opt to still repay the capital portion and reduce monthly installment paid?
e.g.
loan 800k
interest rate 4.35%
30 years loan
4000+ montly installment
after 3 years make capital repayment of 300k and request to lower monthly installment.
is this equivalent to now taking loan of 500k over 27 years?
how about the interest paid earlier on the loan of 800k? will it bring forward?
is this repayment considered as loan refinancing?
how does it affect lock in period?
thanks guys
1. You may use the amortization table to calculate e.g once you put in X amount of money starting from a specific period, how much you'll save.
2. Yes you can still choose to upfront pay off the capital portion. For reduction of monthly installment, only MBB full flexi can do that at the moment.
In your example, yes it's something like that, however, your installment will remain the same at 4000 per month but interest will calculate as 500k, 27 years.
Interest paid earlier already goes to the bank, less amount were paid to the principle, e.g 4000, maybe 3600 went to interest and 400 goes to principle.
No, this kind of repayment is standard among flexi loans.
No it will not affect the lock in period.
However, some banks will not allow you to put more than 70% of the loan amount into the flexi account otherwise they will penalise you by charging extra interest.