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Monthly payment, total interest and a full amortization schedule, using Canadian semi-annual compounding and CMHC mortgage insurance rules.

The short answer

A $700,000 home with 20% down amortised over 25 years at 4.6% costs $3,130.66 a month, with $379,197 of interest over the full term. Canadian mortgages compound semi-annually rather than monthly, which makes the payment slightly lower than a US mortgage at the same posted rate.

The purchase

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$140,000
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Minimum here is $45,000.

The loan

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Canadian mortgages compound semi-annually by law.

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Goes straight against principal.

Carrying costs

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Total monthly payment

$3,597.33

$3,130.66 principal and interest, plus $466.67 for tax and insurance.

What the house actually costs

Over the whole life of the loan, before tax and insurance.

Down payment: $140,000 (13.0%), Loan principal: $560,000 (51.9%), Interest: $379,197 (35.1%)

  • Down payment$140,000
  • Loan principal$560,000
  • Interest$379,197

Home price

$700,000.00

Down payment

20.0% of the price

− $140,000.00

Amount borrowed

$560,000.00

Total interest over the term

300 payments at 4.60%

$379,196.94

Total of all payments

$1,079,196.94

What you still owe, year by year

Early payments are mostly interest. The balance falls slowly at first, then quickly.

$0$200,000$400,000Yr 1Yr 5Yr 9Yr 13Yr 17Yr 21Yr 25

Hover the chart to read any year.

Show the mathThe payment formula and the full amortization schedule

The payment comes from the standard amortising formula, where i is the periodic rate and n the number of payments:

payment = P × i × (1 + i)ⁿ ÷ ((1 + i)ⁿ − 1)

P = $560,000
i = 0.379711% per month
n = 300 payments
payment = $3,130.66

Canadian mortgages compound semi-annually, so the monthly rate is (1 + annual ÷ 2) ^ (1 ÷ 6) − 1, not annual ÷ 12. That makes the payment slightly lower than a US mortgage at the same posted rate.

Year by year, here is how each payment splits.

Amortization schedule by year
YearInterestPrincipalBalance
1$25,262$12,306$547,694
2$24,689$12,879$534,815
3$24,090$13,478$521,337
4$23,463$14,105$507,232
5$22,806$14,761$492,470
6$22,120$15,448$477,022
7$21,401$16,167$460,855
8$20,649$16,919$443,935
9$19,861$17,707$426,229
10$19,037$18,530$407,698
11$18,175$19,393$388,306
12$17,273$20,295$368,011
13$16,329$21,239$346,771
14$15,340$22,228$324,544
15$14,306$23,262$301,282
16$13,224$24,344$276,938
17$12,091$25,477$251,461
18$10,906$26,662$224,799
19$9,665$27,903$196,896
20$8,367$29,201$167,695
21$7,008$30,560$137,135
22$5,586$31,982$105,154
23$4,098$33,470$71,684
24$2,541$35,027$36,657
25$911$36,657$0

What this does not include

Closing costs, land transfer tax, legal fees, appraisal, title insurance, condo or HOA fees, and maintenance. Property tax and home insurance are your estimates, not quotes, and both change yearly. Canadian mortgages also renew every few years at whatever rate is available then; this assumes one rate for the whole amortization.

Questions

What people ask

What is semi-annual compounding and why does it matter?

Canadian law requires fixed mortgage interest to be quoted with semi-annual compounding. The effective monthly rate is (1 + annual ÷ 2) to the power of 1/6, minus 1, which is slightly less than annual ÷ 12. At the same posted rate a Canadian mortgage payment is a little lower than a US one.

When do I have to pay CMHC insurance?

Whenever your down payment is under 20%. The premium is a percentage of the loan set by loan-to-value, running from 4.00% at 95% down to 2.80% at 85%, and it is added to the mortgage rather than paid up front. Amortisations beyond 25 years add a 0.20% surcharge.

What is the minimum down payment in Canada?

5% on the first $500,000, 10% on the portion between $500,000 and $1.5 million, and 20% at or above $1.5 million, where insurance is not available at all. The calculator flags a down payment below the minimum.

Why does the calculator assume one rate for the whole amortisation?

Because it has to assume something. In reality you renew every few years at whatever rate exists then, so treat the total-interest figure as the answer to 'what if this rate held', not a prediction.

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