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Tag: Mortgage

Don’t sum up your home loan interest and rush to prepay it!

Published on October 9, 2025 / By M. Pattabiraman Twitter: @pattufreefincal

Home loan borrowers make this common mistake. For a Rs. 50 Lakh home loan payable over 20 years at  8% interest, the EMI is Rs. 41,822. As is well known, much of the EMI initially is interest. It is incorrect to sum the total interest paid (Rs. 50,37,281 in this case) and claim that as…

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