Do you know how home loan EMI is calculated ? Its not just about Home loan , it can be any loan EMI . In this post we will learn how do we calculate monthly EMI for home Loan and how increasing Tenure does not help much after a certain point. A lot of people do not know that increasing the tenure only leads to increase in Interest amount payable and nothing else . The decrease in EMI is not proportional to the increase in Loan tenure . In Housing Finance , Equated Monthly Installments (EMI) refers to the monthly payment towards interest and principal made by a borrower to a lender. EMI is calculated using a formula that considers .
- Loan Amount
- Interest Rate
- Loan Period

Where,
L = Loan amount
i = Interest Rate (rate per annum divided by 12)
^ = to the power of
N = loan period in months
Example
Assuming a loan of Rs 1 Lakh at 11 percent per annum , repayable in 15 years, the EMI calculation using the formula will be :
EMI = (100000 x .00916) x ((1+.00916)^180 ) / ([(1+.00916)^180] – 1)
====> 916 X (5.161846 / 4.161846)
EMI = Rs 1,136
NoteĀ atĀ i = 11 percent / 12 = .11/12 = .00916
Q. How much benefit we get by increasing the Tenure of the Loan. Considering a Loan of Rs 30 Lacs at 12% interest rate.
Ans : I did a bit of my so called “mathematical skills” … and found out that EMI is of form
EMI(n) = C1 X C2^n / C2^n-1 , where
C1 = L * i
C2 = 1+i
So the difference in the EMI value for n+1 and n is nothing but
by a bit of caculation i got :
EMI(n) – EMI(n+1) = C1 x (C2^2n – C2^n) / (C2^2n – 1)
and when n becomes very large … and appling limit, we get
Lim C1 x (C2^2n – C2^n) / (C2^2n – 1)
-> Inf=>
Lim C1 / C2^n
n->Infand as C2 > 1 (C2 = 1+i)
=>
Lim C1/C2^n = 0
n->Inf
Or in other words if we differentiate the EMI formula … we get a constant …
It shows and proves that the difference in EMI value is not very significant copmpared to the change in tenure and at one stage its almost of no gain to increase the tenure.
To show this argument : i would like to present an example, considering my old question:
Q. How much benefit we get by increasing the Tenure of the Loan. Considering a Loan of Rs 30 Lacs at 12% interest rate.
I am listing down the EMI value for different Tenures from 10 years to 100 years
Tenure EMI Differnce in EMI when tenure increased by 5 years
10 43041 7036
15 36005 2972
20 33032 1435
25 31596 738
30 30858 391
35 30466. 211
40 30254 115
45 30139 63
50 30076 34
55 30042 18
60 30023 10
65 30012 5
70 30007 3
75 30003 1
80 30002 0.95
85 30001.17 0.52
90 30000.64 0.29
95 30000.35 0.159
What it tells us is that it’s almost useless to extend the tenure after some time …



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You are brilliant! Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas and tools.
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Thanks a lot .. what do you think about the maths done here
.. just curious
Manish
I have taken a fixed home loan of 20,00,000 for 15 years with 9.5% rate. My EMI was 22K, however i started paying 30K instead to save some interest.
Current outstanding is 17.40 Lacs,
With my calculation i will be closing the loan in next 6 years.
I have some money now around 1 Lac, Should i pay this one and save interest or invest in a mutual fund and continue as per plan to close in 6 years.
Brilliant conclusion man. Thanks for this
I saw this blog today for the first time, but I will visit again
Hi Ajeet
Thanks for stopping by and reading . I am sure you will get amazing things in future too
Manish
Manish ,
U Rockz . Tihs blog makes me to re check my math skills
. U r simply awsome
Amarnath
Thanks man … I am sure you are talking about the calculas part
Manish
Was just browsing through old posts of yours. Would be good if readers also browse this loan amortization schedule @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/using-the-loan-amortization-and-loan-analysis-templates-HA001034640.aspx
hi manish i read this mail, i adviced my sister to take a longer duration home loan, the reason is every year she does top up of 1lac rs in principal and the difference from 20 years to 15yrs is small, she invest the small part in sip, which we book book profit and prepay the loan, we have planned to stop the loan in ten years . this way she is paying more of principal in the initial 6 years.
is it a good statergy.
Geo
I dont think so . If it was increasing the tenure from 5 to 10 yrs or 10 to 15 yrs, the reduction in EMI would be good enough , but just try to see what is the EMI reduction happenening when you increase the tenure from 20 to 25 yrs ?
For a 40 lacs loan @10% interest and tenure 20 yrs , EMI per month = 38601
However when you increase the Tenure to 25 yrs , the EMI comes to 36348 . Thats very insignificant decrease .
Manish
your work is commendable..
but you forgot to take into account time value of money.
Value of money after 30 years is going to be much less than what it is going to be after 10 years. So, repaying the loan in 30 years is much beneficial than repaying back in 10 years. ( in accordance to your stats mentioned above)
You are right when it comes to comparison for 100 years..but I dont think it applies in real world as no bank would offer you that…
cheers,
Srikar
yup
Agree with you
Manish
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