Earlier I wrote a post to convince you that you should buy a house against renting, Today let’s build a case of buying house on EMIs vs investing equated monthly investment (EMI ) in capital markets

Base case

Cost of house – INR 60,00,000

Down payment – INR 12,00,000

Term – 15 years

Rate of interest – A quick search would tell you ~10% floating rate is the going rate , See below snapshot from www.bankbazaar.com

Typically as an economy scales up the interest rate goes down, See an example of South Korea , A nation which has moved from being a developing nation to a developed nation

Therefore for our base case example we can say that consumer is likely to pay a lower EMI in future however to be conservative I will assume EMI to be constant

EMI – INR 51,463 /month or INR 6,17,564 / Year

To complete my calculation I need to make few more assumptions , Rent yields let take a look at what are rent yields across the world now

In 15 years India as an economy should be closer to China / Singapore in real terms so I can only make an educated … Read the rest