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Your starting point

Compare what you would pay across different assumptions. A calculator helps you explore a scenario; only a lender can assess an application and offer credit.

The mortgage tool models equal monthly repayments using the capital, annual nominal rate and term you enter. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.

Work through the decision

Mortgage Calculator: Assumptions and Limits — a diagram of the key planning steps
Planning diagram. The same steps are described in the text below.
01

Understand the formula

Monthly rate equals annual rate divided by twelve; the standard annuity formula gives the payment.

02

Know the exclusions

The result excludes insurance, fees, taxes and future rate changes unless entered as separate scenarios.

03

Check the offer

Compare the model with the lender's repayment schedule before using it for a real commitment.

Adapt this to your circumstances

Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.

Sources and checks

Banco de Portugal — mortgage interest rates — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.

No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.

Make it practical

Open the Mortgage Scenario Calculator to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.

Open Mortgage Scenario Calculator

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