Home loan interest
Despite cuts in interest rates in home loans by banks, the growth in this segment has dipped as against previous years, as per Reserve Bank of India’s credit data. The trend of availing home loan to the housing sector was 13.3 percent in January 2012 which has dipped down to 12.3 percent in January 2013. One reason for [...] Continue Reading »
The home loan incentive which was announced recently by the Finance Minister with the Union Budget 2013 has been the talk since its release. The real estate developers are the group who can cheer the most with the incentive. One can claim the tax deduction only if his/her loan amount is less than Rs 25 lakh. Also, it has [...] Continue Reading »
With release of Union Budget 2013, the Finance Minister has proposed to offer deduction in tax on home loans to first time home buyers. This initiative has brought some cheer for the home buyers as there was no significant tax reliefs in the past. One can claim the deduction at tax only if your loan amount is [...] Continue Reading »
With the Union Budget to be presented in a week, Builders’s Association of India (BAI) expects a hike in exemption limit on the interest in home loan. At present, the exemption is set at Rs 1.5 lakh which the builders want to be set at Rs 3 lakh. The builders demand the Finance Minister to [...] Continue Reading »
The State Bank of India Chairman said that the bank is not planning to reduce the lending rate immediately. As the base rate of interest of SBI is lowest in the capital market, they are not interested in reduction of home loan interest. The SBI is also not planning to reduce the deposit rates. According [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate in metros are witnessing some activities than other areas. The rate of index of the real estate companies in the stock market are not showing much change. Some bigger brands in real estate like DLF and Unitech planned to sell of their non core assets to reduce the debt amount. The realty market [...] Continue Reading »
Addressing a press conference at Noida, representatives of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI), Western Uttar Pradesh Chapter, said that all those who had booked houses in the affected projects would get back their money, including the cost incurred as home loan interest, if they so desired. The builders and developers [...] Continue Reading »
