Thu 8 Sep, 2011
PMI Mortgage Insurance: Home Owners Insurance Vs Private Mortgage Insurance
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Each mortgage payment includes 5 items. It is called “PITI + PMI”. “P” stands for payment that reduces the Principal loan balance (This goes towards your equity ). “I” stands for Interest that you pay to the lender for lending you the money to buy the house. “T” stands for Taxes to the county. “I” Stands for the Home owners Insurance. Finally, “PMI” stands for Private Mortgage Insurance.
How the loan payment is decided? When you take out a loan the total amount of money that you borrow is called the principle. This is usually the price of the house minus the down payment. Interest is the amount of money that the bank or lender charges you for the loan. It is a percentage of the principle. In an amortized loan your monthly payment is the principle divided by the number of payments plus the interest, taxes, and PMI. Your monthly mortgage payment will first go to paying part of the interest on the loan and then it will go to paying part of the principle. In the beginning of the loan the majority of your loan payment will go to the paying of interest. This will change over the life of the loan. By the time you are half way through the loan your mortgage payment will go equally to interest and principal with each month after having a larger part of the payment going towards the principle.
PMI vs. LPMI – An Example- Let us have a look at the difference between these two options PMI mortgage insurance or LPMI) on a $200,000 mortgage financed over a term of thirty years at a fixed rate. The necessary down payment on a mortgage of this size under the 20% rule would be $10,000. Under the home loan that is financed requiring PMI, we will assume a thirty year fixed rate of around 5.6%, making the payment amount range around $1250. The same loan written with lender paid mortgage insurance under the same term of thirty years at a rate of 6.4% would have a payment of around $1180 a month. Basically, the lessened interest for the mortgage that requires private mortgage interest costs makes the lender paid mortgage insurance loan less, even though the lender is requiring a higher rate of interest.
Under this example, the mortgage loan payment difference is around $70 a month, for a combined yearly reduction in payment amount of around $850. In this regard, paying more interest is evened out in the end by avoiding paying private mortgage insurance.
In the mortgage business, it protects the lender against loss if the borrower defaults on the loan and by enabling borrowers with less cash to have greater access to home ownership. Meaning, you can buy a home with a three to five percent down payment without waiting years to save up a large sum of money. However, if the lender is unable to recover costs after foreclosure and sale of the property, they receive 15 percent of what you did not pay at closing.
Learn more about Obama Mortgage Relief Plan Qualifications.