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Mortgage payment calculator

The asking price, or the offer you have in mind.

Example5.00% is a worked example, not a quote. Type the rate you were quoted.

$75,000 10%
25 years
Payment frequency

Twelve payments a year.

Accelerated bi-weekly clears it in 21.5 years, 3.5 years early, and saves $84,118 in interest.

Estimated payment

Worked example at 5.00 per cent. Monthly payment $4,047.53. Mortgage amount $695,925, down payment $75,000.

A worked example at 5.00%. Replace it with the rate you were quoted.

Where each year’s payments go

Year 1
Year 12 — principal overtakes interest
Year 25
Mortgage amount
$695,925
Down payment
$75,000 10%
Interest over the life
$518,335
Total of payments
$1,214,260

What you need on closing day

First-time buyer

Starts at Yes. It sets both land transfer tax rebates, and on an insured mortgage it decides whether 30 years is available at all — answered No, a 30-year request is written at 25, on a different CMHC premium and a higher payment. Anyone who has owned before and leaves this on Yes is reading figures that flatter them.

Inside the City of Toronto

Toronto charges a municipal land transfer tax, and a registration fee, on top of the provincial tax — on every property in the city. That is all six municipalities amalgamated on 1 January 1998: the old City of Toronto, East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and York.

Cash needed on closing day

$84,149

  • Down payment$75,000
  • Land transfer tax$7,475
  • PST on the premium$1,674

Lawyer’s fees, title insurance, the home inspection and the adjustments are on top of this, and so are home insurance, which a lender requires before it advances, and condominium fees where they apply. Those are quotes rather than rates, so budget for them separately.

Minimum down payment5% of the first $500,000, 10% of the rest, and 20% at $1.5M and over.
$50,000
CMHC insurance premiumAdded to the mortgage, not paid in cash.
$20,925
Total mortgageLoan plus the premium.
$695,925
Ontario land transfer taxOn the schedule for land containing one or two single family residences, which is what this page is built for. That is the only schedule carrying the 2.5% band above $2,000,000.
$11,475
First-time buyer rebateUp to $4,000, and only if you are 18 or over, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, have never owned a home or any interest in one anywhere in the world — nor has your spouse while you were spouses — and live in it as your principal residence within nine months.
− $4,000
Land transfer tax payable
$7,475
Ontario sales tax on the premium8%. This one cannot be added to the mortgage — it is due in cash.
$1,674
What it costs every month

A mortgage payment is not the monthly cost of a home. Property tax is the other half of it, and it is charged on the MPAC assessed value — not on what you pay for the house. Ontario’s valuation date is still January 1, 2016, so the assessment is usually well below today’s price.

On your MPAC Property Assessment Notice or your tax bill. Not your purchase price — entering that overstates the tax.

Enter an assessed value to see the property tax.

Brampton residential rate 1.253381%, 2026 — the total on the bill, the municipal portion and the provincial education portion combined. Source. Condo fees, where they apply, are on top of this.

Rates read 4 September 2026: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (down payment), Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (premiums), Ontario Ministry of Finance (land transfer tax and the 8% premium tax), and City of Toronto (municipal land transfer tax, on the schedule in force since 1 April 2026). An estimate, not a quote — your lawyer confirms the closing figures.

The same home, four ways

What each down payment costs you every month, and what it takes to get to the table. Worked at 5.00% over 25 years.

Down payment
Down payment
$50,000$75,000$112,500$150,000
CMHC premiumAdded to the mortgage
+ $28,000+ $20,925+ $17,850
Total mortgage
$728,000$695,925$655,350$600,000
Monthly payment
$4,234$4,048$3,812$3,490
Cash on closing dayDown payment, land transfer tax and the tax on the premium
$59,715$84,149$121,403$157,475
Against the smallestWhat the bigger deposit changes each month, measured against the 6.67% column
saves $187saves $423saves $744

A larger deposit lowers the payment twice over: less borrowed, and at 20% no mortgage insurance premium at all. It also asks for more cash on the day. The column that is easiest to reach is rarely the cheapest to own, and that trade is the decision — not the rate.

How this is calculated

Interest is compounded semi-annually, not in advance — the convention Canadian fixed-rate mortgages are quoted on. A calculator that divides the annual rate by twelve is using the American convention and will overstate your payment: $500,000 at 5.00% over 25 years is $2,908.02 a month calculated this way, and $2,922.95 calculated the American way.

The Interest Act is often given as the reason, and that is not what it says. Section 6 sets a disclosure rule rather than a compounding frequency: on a mortgage whose payments blend principal and interest, no interest is chargeable at all unless the mortgage “contains a statement showing the amount of the principal money and the rate of interest chargeable on that money, calculated yearly or half-yearly, not in advance”. Yearly is permitted by those same words. Half-yearly is what lenders quote, so half-yearly is what this calculates.

This is an estimate for budgeting, not a quote or an approval — only a mortgage professional can give you either. Mortgage default insurance, the land transfer taxes and the cash needed at closing are worked out in the panel above, each against the issuing authority’s own published rates. Property tax and condo fees are NOT included in the payment — Ontario still assesses property on the January 1, 2016 valuation date, so an estimate taken from today’s purchase price would overstate the tax rather than help you. Every figure is calculated on the rate you type; the 5.00% it opens on is a worked example you can clear in one press.

Next step

Know the payment. Now find out what you can actually buy

Robin will work through pre-approval, the deposit, land transfer tax and closing costs against a real purchase price — in Gujarati, Hindi or English.