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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 »
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 »
India has witnessed a rise in number of NRIs investing on properties. The dollar appreciation has given a further push to demand from NRI’s for investment in residential properties. With the real estate becoming cheaper for NRIs, many seek to invest in residential properties in two-tier cities such as Pune, notes Om Ahuja, CEO – [...] Continue Reading »
National Housing Bank (NHB) a housing finance regulator at the earliest will be raising Rs 4,500 crore on fund housing activities. NHB experts say that for now they have raised Rs 4,500 crores and are now looking forward to raise same amount by the end of current fiscal. Under the guidance of Reserve Bank of [...] Continue Reading »
The National Housing Bank (NHB) raises provisioning requirement for doubtful assets up to 100%, asks housing finance companies to set aside 0.4% loans as buffer. The new guidelines are aimed at protecting the health of HFCs when concerns over possible asset quality deterioration increases manifold amid rising interest rates, but industry captains said their prising [...] 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 »
Demand for property in major cities across the country have dipped and sharp increase in borrowing costs had kept buyers on the sidelines. Banks have raised their lending rates sharply in the past few months after Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates 11 times since March 2010. Bhopal leads the pack in rise [...] 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 »
National Housing Bank (NHB) has taken 2007 realty as a benchmark of the Residex pegged at 100. The figures show how Ahmedabad along with five others cities – Mumbai , Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow and Pune – have bucked the trend of falling prices. Residex (residential index) figures for city areas reveal that the road expansion [...] Continue Reading »
