State Bank of India
The biggest advantage of purchasing a property on your wife’s name does not only impress the family, being seen as a trendsetter in a patriarchal society but the main strawberry part is that you might shear off 1-2 per cent of the property value. Women buyers get discount on stamp duty by some state governments [...] Continue Reading »
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) raised $300 million via external commercial borrowings (ECB). The amount was raised under the affordable housing scheme of the Reserve Bank of India. ECB loans carry a lower rate of interest and are raised abroad. The RBI has allowed housing finance companies to tap external sources of financing to enable [...] Continue Reading »
Tata Housing Finance has announced lower rates for women home loan borrowers. The company competes with various financial institutions which offer special loans for women. The company issued a statement that for loan up to 40 Lakhs the rates will be 10.15% for women, while for other borrowers it will be 10.45%. The company stated [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India (SBI) has planned to speed up the home loan approval process by making it online. Now, the national bank will approve the loan amount online by linking it with Credit Information Bureau of India (Cibil). For doing so, the bank is thinking of finalising the service providers who will enable the [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Finance Corporation Ltd (APSMFC) will ask the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for the list of properties that were purchased by the accused in the scholarship scam case. Corporation arrived to a conclusion from the board meeting that the properties in Hyderabad bought by the scamsters should be averted from selling and transferring as [...] Continue Reading »
With State Bank of India offering the lowest home loan interest rates, people who who have taken loans from other private banks switched to SBI. In the first two months of the third quarter SBI had obtained Rs 800 crores in home loans. Consumers with Rs 400 crore of home loans switched to SBI in November [...] 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 two potential bidders, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and private investor Red Fort Capital are to acquire the real estate assets of Hindustan Teleprinters (HTL), where Himachal Futuristic Communication (HFCL) holds 74% stake. After HTL was deemed as non performing assest, SBI took possession of 10.16 acre company land, in Chennai. The final [...] Continue Reading »
