If you want to buy a house, you should get a mortgage, and probably you want to know what amount you will pay every month, or

how long should be length of mortgage to be able to pay the monthly payment.

You can get all information needed, and some more advices by using a mortgage calculator.

To get started go to: Maracal Mortgage Calculator . You will

be prompted to insert the sale price of home, the percentage down, length of mortgage and annual interest rate. The annual

interest rate it’s different for each bank, in US, the average interest rate is 7%. If the percentage down is less than 20%,

you will pay Private mortgage insurance, which tends to be about $55 per month for every $100,000 financed (until you have

paid off 20% of your loan). If you check the “Explain Calculations” box you will get a lot of additional information and the

amount paid every month for the whole duration of the loan.

After you complete all fields, you will get the results. First you will get monthly payment with principal and interest only,

where we add private mortgage insurance, and residential (or property) taxes. The average residential tax rate seems to be

around $14 per year for every $1,000 of your property’s assessed value.

The amount you must pay every month after all taxes and insurances is shown in the “TOTAL Monthly Payment” section. In the

next section is shown how this calculator got those values.

If you checked the “Explain Calculations” box, you will see how much you will pay every month in every year of the duration

of the mortgage, with amortization explained. Also, for every month you will know how much you will pay for principal, for

interest, and after every month you will get the remaining balance.

I hope this calculator will help you to make a very important decision right in your life: your home.