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Treehouse Improvement Loan — Which Squirrels Can Join?

Larger sums over longer terms for work on the drey, at a slightly lower fixed rate. The illustration is unsecured: the treehouse itself is never at risk, which is more than can be said for the roof.

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Demo rate card5.9% APR representative (fixed); £7,500.00 to £40,000.00 over 2 to 10 years

The pound values and percentages on this page are invented AcornBank product terms, chosen for a realistic bank-style example. They are not current market offers, an invitation to deposit or invest money or a forecast of what a real bank will pay.

Product detailDemo terms
Account typeFixed-rate home improvement loan
Rate, reward or charge5.9% APR representative (fixed); £7,500.00 to £40,000.00 over 2 to 10 years
Illustrative loan amount£7,500.00 to £40,000.00 over 24 to 120 months
AccessFixed monthly repayments over 2 to 10 years; early settlement allowed with up to 58 days’ interest in the model
Eligibility in the scenarioAn adult story applicant who owns or rents a fictional treehouse, with assumed affordability
FeesNo arrangement fee; early settlement costs up to 58 days’ interest
Representative example£10,000.00 over 84 months
CurrencyGBP (£), used solely for fictional calculations

Monthly payment and total repayable

Each cell shows the monthly payment, then the total repayable over the term.

Amount24 months36 months60 months84 months
£10,000.00£442.06 / £10,609.54£303.07 / £10,910.57£192.15 / £11,529.04£144.87 / £12,169.23
£15,000.00£663.10 / £15,914.26£454.61 / £16,365.80£288.23 / £17,293.48£217.31 / £18,253.83
£25,000.00£1,105.16 / £26,523.78£757.68 / £27,276.36£480.38 / £28,822.49£362.18 / £30,423.06

Representative example: £10,000.00 over 84 months

ItemModel amount
Amount borrowed£10,000.00
Term84 monthly payments
Fixed rate5.9% APR representative
Monthly payment£144.87
Total interest£2,169.23
Total repayable£12,169.23

How the balance falls

YearPaymentsOf which interestBalance at year end
1£1,738.44£543.48£8,805.04
2£1,738.44£472.97£7,539.57
3£1,738.44£398.28£6,199.41
4£1,738.44£319.24£4,780.21
5£1,738.44£235.51£3,277.28
6£1,738.44£146.82£1,685.66
7£1,738.59£52.93£0.00

Settling early

ItemModel amount
Balance after 42 payments£5,499.97
58 days’ interest in the model£51.56
Amount to settle£5,551.53
Interest saved versus running to term£533.16

Assumptions: the fixed rate is converted to an equivalent monthly rate, payments are equal with an adjusted final payment, interest is rounded monthly and nothing is missed or overpaid. The early-settlement figure follows the usual up-to-58-days convention. This is a fictional illustration, not a credit agreement or a quotation.

Treehouse Improvement Loan is fixed-rate home improvement loan in the Loans range, used for a new roof, a bigger balcony or a second hollow. Its live rate card, summary and worked tables sit above this text and update whenever the product record changes.

Who fits the fictional example?

An adult story applicant who owns or rents a fictional treehouse, with assumed affordability. These are character-selection rules for the demo, not a real eligibility assessment. The scenario assumes the opening amount or limit fits the product range and that any required guardian, notice period or repayment plan is in place. A customer story is not evidence that a real application would be accepted.

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What the example does not promise

All figures are invented and shown to make the demo useful to read and crawl. No money is held, no application is available, and no deposit-protection, regulatory or tax-wrapper status is claimed. Calculations do not account for personal tax, inflation or unstated changes in rates. The fictional bank manager can guarantee only that the next paragraph contains no real acorns.

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