home loan
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) has sought to revive the market for fixed rate home loans. HDFC has decided to launch a new product where interest rates are fixed for 10 years. Under the new scheme, rates would be 125 basis points lower than HDFC’s existing fixed rate loans. The new scheme is called “Trufixed [...] Continue Reading »
Statistics show that Public sector banks are facing the problem of high delinquencies in the home loan segment up to Rs 5 lakh. High interest rates and sticky inflation have hampered the ability of small borrowers to service home loans. Home loans in two slabs — up to Rs 2 lakh and Rs 2-5 lakh [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India (SBI) has revealed that it has cut its annual home loan growth target by up to 10 per cent age points. The biggest lender of the country has to revise their target due to sluggish growth in property market. The bank cut its home loan rates on Wednesday by up to [...] Continue Reading »
A day after SBI reduced home and auto loan rates and the National Housing Bank (NHB) announced reduction in the refinance rate under a special scheme for the economically weaker section, there seems to be a possibility of further cut looming in the horizon. Moreover, SBI said that it would cut interest rates on fixed [...] Continue Reading »
As real estate sector in India faces a dip, domestic lenders with major retail loan are keeping an intense look at the situation. While the hub of realty sector, Mumbai, is going through a slump, the lenders are concentrating on the new emerging markets – Pune, Bhopal, Indore, Surat, Nagpur and Ahmedabad. LIC Housing Finance, [...] Continue Reading »
The Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd (HDFC) has said that its net profit rose by 19 per cent in the quarter ended June as a result of strong growth in individual home loan borrowing. HDFC’s June quarter net profit rose to Rs. 1,001.9 crore from Rs. 844.53 crore last year, while its loan book stood [...] Continue Reading »
The government is to provide interest subsidy of up to Rs 14,912 this fiscal for housing loan not exceeding Rs 15 lakh, which came as a relief to small home loan borrowers. The Cabinet decided to extend by one year the interest subvention scheme of one per cent on housing loans up to Rs 15 [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India’s (SBI) home loan portfolio grow by less than 2% in the three months ended June – its lowest sequential, or quarter-on-quarter, growth in five quarters. The portfolio stood close to Rs1,05,000 crore as of June 30, compared with Rs1,02,739 crore as of March 31, according to a senior official at the [...] Continue Reading »
Few years back, the home loan which was provided under teaser loan scheme by a housing finance company (HFC), is not the same anymore when repaying it back. The prepayment charges amounted to Rs 2 lakh for a person who had availed a Rs 1 crore loan under that special rate scheme. As per a [...] Continue Reading »
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Bihar government and the State Bank of India to provide home loan to state government employees at cheaper rates. As per the MoU, the government being the guarantor would deduct the EMI from the loan beneficiary’s salary if he/she is in default on the loan. This [...] Continue Reading »
