Mortgage Term Payment Comparison Calculator NZ 2026

This calculator shows how the length of your home loan term changes both your regular repayments and the total amount you pay back over the life of the loan. Enter your property price, your deposit as either a percentage or a dollar amount, your mortgage interest rate, and how often you repay, whether weekly, fortnightly, monthly, bi-monthly or yearly. It works out your loan principal after the deposit, then runs the numbers across six common terms of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years at the same rate and payment frequency. For each term it returns the total number of payments, the amount of each individual payment, and the total amount repaid by the time the loan is cleared. Lining the terms up side by side makes the trade-off obvious: a shorter term means higher regular payments but a smaller total paid overall, while stretching a loan to 30 years lowers each payment yet can add well over a hundred thousand dollars in extra interest. Use it to see how much a longer term really costs you, or whether you could manage the higher payments of a shorter term and save substantially over time. Results are estimates based on the figures and rate you enter, and do not allow for future rate changes, fees or refixing, so treat them as a guide rather than financial advice.

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