Reserve Bank of India
State Bank of India has gone through teaser loan scheme by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in early 2009 but now ruled out relaunching a dual rate scheme for home loans due to its paying a stiff price in the form of huge provisioning. ICICI Bank and HDFC have already come up with teaser [...] Continue Reading »
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said floating rate home loans will be spared penal charges in case of prepayments. Besides the decision on home loans, the action points include measures to protect customer interest in unauthorized ATM transactions, and a policy for compensation to customers for mental harassment. The regulator for housing finance companies like [...] 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 »
ICICI Bank on Tuesday said its recently launched fixed-rate home loan scheme would not attract the higher provisioning mandated for teaser-rate housing loan products and the rates are “fixed” only for an initial period of one and two years. According to the bank, the fixed rates will “shield customers from frequent changes in home loan [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had jacked up its key lending rate by a steep 425 basis points in the past 15 months to batten down inflation and the banks have passed on the increased cost to borrowers. Banks have been witnessing rising risks from small and medium scale industries and unsecured portfolios, which [...] Continue Reading »
Several banks had reduced their yearly business growth targets following slowing in credit offtake on account of increasing interest rates. The Reserve Bank of India has raised policy rates 11 times in the past 16 months, making funds dearer. Banks are looking to boost credit growth, which has suffered due to high interest rates. Most [...] Continue Reading »
Differential rate of interest scheme (DRI) was formulated by the central government in 1972 for extending financial assistance at a concessional rate of interest (4%) to select low income groups for productive endeavours. These loans were to be given initially by public sector banks and then by private sector banks also. The Reserve Bank of [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai has 104 million sq ft of unsold real estate. The slowdown in real estate sales in Mumbai may have intensified due to higher interest rates, which could pressure developers to bring down prices. This may not be a worrisome trend as sales are low during monsoon. Pressure will start building up only when the [...] Continue Reading »
Builders in Noida Extension have assured existing buyers that they do not have to incur any additional expenditure due to the ongoing land row. The builders say that new home buyers may have to shell out more than the current prices to cover the losses incurred by them if additional compensation is paid to villagers. [...] Continue Reading »
