HFCs
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) disagrees with finance ministry’s plan to give Sarfaesi Act-powers automatically to all housing finance companies (HFCs) registered with the National Housing Bank (NHB). An official says that the ‘stringent’ Sarfaesi powers should not be given to institutions without proper due diligence of their management, track-record, borrower profile and default [...] Continue Reading »
Being developed in association by mortgage regulator National Housing Bank and Indian Banks’ Association Greenfield housing projects will soon come under a new rating system. The whole idea of rating intended to encourage lenders to give loans at discounted rates to individuals buying units in projects rated highly by NHB-IBA. It will in turn encourage [...] Continue Reading »
Nachiket Mor, central board member of RBI suggested the National Housing Bank (NHB) to work on a benchmark index for floating interest rates in housing loans. He also said that such indexes could result in the expansion of unoriginal market based on it. He also added that the indexes must be customer oriented. He also [...] Continue Reading »
The Finance Ministry is mulling an option of allowing the long-term funds from such funding institutions to help housing finance companies (HFCs) overcome the asset liability mis-matches. These funds can be channelized to the housing sector either by allowing them to lend to HFCs, or permitting them to invest in Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) [...] Continue Reading »
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) said that the market watchdog, SEBI, should categorize housing finance companies (HFCs) as a separate sector from Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) to attract more fund flows. It suggested SEBI not to club HFCs with NBFCs for the purposes of sectoral limits proposed for investments by [...] Continue Reading »
HDFC posted a marginal growth in the net profit; however LIC Housing and Dewan Housing both reported a severe drop in the financial market. During the month of June 2011, both of these financial sectors reported a severe decline in sanctioning loans and there are few borrowers approaching them for funding. The actual impact is [...] Continue Reading »
Home loan borrowers are now facing a tough time as there is a slight raise in the EMI (Equated Monthly Installments). Banks have agreed to increase pre-payment charges at the meeting with RBI (Reserve Bank of India). The Central Government is concerned about the home loan burden on the loan borrowers. Henceforth they have put [...] Continue Reading »
Interest rates levied by housing finance companies (HFCs) have risen to 11-11.25% from 8.5% in the past year, raising monthly instalments. With interest rates moving up, most of the lenders are going to be impacted as almost 85% of the loans are on floating (interest) rate. National Housing Bank (NHB) asked lenders to keep a [...] Continue Reading »
