HDFC
State Bank of India has gone through teaser loan scheme by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in early 2009 but now ruled out relaunching a dual rate scheme for home loans due to its paying a stiff price in the form of huge provisioning. ICICI Bank and HDFC have already come up with teaser [...] Continue Reading »
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said floating rate home loans will be spared penal charges in case of prepayments. Besides the decision on home loans, the action points include measures to protect customer interest in unauthorized ATM transactions, and a policy for compensation to customers for mental harassment. The regulator for housing finance companies like [...] Continue Reading »
ICICI launched its dual-rate home loans scheme nearly a month back where customers can choose a fixed rate for one or two years, HDFC unveiled ‘Fixed First’, a home loan where interest rates are fixed for the first three or five years and then shifted to floating rates, on Monday. For loans up to Rs30 [...] Continue Reading »
ICICI Bank will offer customers the option to choose a fixed rate of interest for one or two years, after which it will charge applicable floating rate depending on its base rate. The bank’s base rate is at 10% now. Customers opting for the product, which would be available from Friday, would have to pay [...] Continue Reading »
Banks are a large source of funds for the housing finance companies (HFCs) and an increase in their lending rate would push up the cost of funds for the HFCs. Since the latest round of monetary tightening by RBI last week, a host of banks and lending institutions have raised their rates and HDFC is [...] Continue Reading »
