Loans
Indian Banks’ Association committee has recommended to the Finance Ministry that home loans up to Rs 35 lakh should get the priority sector tag. This will help banks to provide loans to house buyers at affordable interest rates. Also it will benefit a large group of customers in Tier II and Tier III towns. Moreover [...] Continue Reading »
In order to boost demand in the economy, public sector banks have either cut interest rates or waived home loans processing fee in response to Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy and finance minister P Chidambaram initiative to revive growth. Several lenders have cut interest rates for home loans such as Bank of Baroda, Bank [...] Continue Reading »
As a result of funding gap, many housing projects have been shut down and as a result, economy has slowed down. The government has directed many banks across the state to unblock values of stalled projects and provide financial dose to turn them viable. National housing bank (NHB) decided to begin the search for the [...] Continue Reading »
Edelweiss Housing Finance to introduce housing loans of less than Rs 10 lakh in Madurai. The firm target the low income group and those constructing their own homes in Chennai suburbs and small towns and in Tamil Nadu. The target of the plan is to focus on self employed and small and micro entrepreneurs and [...] Continue Reading »
The rate of interest may not have fallen significantly this year, but due to the difference in new and old home loan interest, the borrowers are shifting their loan from existing lenders to cheap lenders. The State Bank of India (SBI) is offering Rs 30 lakh home loan for the new borrowers at the most [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India (SBI) are looking forward to raise its home loan portfolio by Rs 2 lakh by March 31, 2015 . The home loan portfolio has recorded a growth of 73.86 per cent against Rs 62,338 crore as on September 30, 2009. The bank will target Tier II and Tier II cities for [...] Continue Reading »
In order to attract customers and beat competition, State Bank of India (SBI) has cut processing fee on home loans, which is till December 31 this year. SBI’s processing fee cut will affect it’s rivals like HDFC, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank adversely, since it has already cut it’s home loan rates. In order to [...] Continue Reading »
The State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to showcase ‘lower equated monthly installment savings investment proposition’ to their existing customers as well as prospective customers including home loan customers of other banks and housing finance companies. The bank has lowered the equated monthly installments (EMIs) on home loans by about Rs. 15-19 across the [...] Continue Reading »
Experts say that the present slowdown in the economy can be turned to a projected growth with a revival in the real estate sector. When India’s economic growth had slowed down to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09 from 9.3 per cent in the previous year, the revival of the real estate sector with a growth in [...] Continue Reading »
Various leading banks have now made it possible for the home buyers to pay back their loan at leisure. Banks have adopted this policy in order to improve their retail credit group. The first ever bank with the longest year of repayment in the India’s banking history is the State Bank of India (SBI) with [...] Continue Reading »
