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Choose Right Repayment Plans for Home Loan

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Choosing right home loan is not just negotiating for lower interest rate, negotiating on processing fee or pre-payment fee. Every borrower should go beyond this basic check list and find out if any of the different flexible repayment options would suit his needs. Remember, even a single default could deface your credit report and disqualify [...]

Understand Your Home Loan

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Banks generally quote an ‘annualized’ interest rate, but remember that interest rates can be deceptive unless you figure out how they are defined. When you take a loan from a bank or a housing finance company, bank will offer you only 80 to 90 per cent of the value of the property i.e., you have [...]

How To Avoid Rejection of Home Loan application

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Earlier getting a home a loan was easier as the lending companies or banks were competing with each other to attract maximum borrowers through attractive schemes and offering teaser home loan. But now Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a series of monetary measures that tightened the norms for home loans. The RBI also sought [...]

Home Loans are going to get costlier

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on announced a series of monetary measures that tightened the norms for home loans. The RBI also sought to discourage banks from aggressively selling “teaser loans”, which are a big hit with people who want to buy houses. The banks will have to keep more money aside for offering [...]

Is Refinancing Your Home Loan Makes Sense?

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

A home loan refinance may just be the smartest thing to your reduce your monthly expenses and improve credit all at once. Refinancing Home loan in simple terms means replacing your existing loan, with a new one, under fresh terms and conditions. Some borrowers choose to refinance their home loan to terminate the existing loan [...]

Refinancing Home Loan in India

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Refinance has become a common way of repaying the earlier debts and creating new ones. Refinancing in simple terms means replacing your existing loan, with a new one, under fresh terms and conditions. The new loan or refinance taken for the payment of earlier loan is always at lower interest rates so that the person [...]

Home Loan- Get Benefit By Shifting To Base Rate

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Base Rate is one of the reforms on banking system by RBI to reduce the lending risk for banks. Before setting the base rate system, banks used Prime Lending Rate (PLR) to set their lending rates. RBI come up with the new Base Rate system where banks can lend the loans based on the new [...]

Base Rate Will Not Affect Home Loan

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Base Rate for loans is effective from July 1, 2010. Base Rate is more objective reference number than the benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR). The impact of Base Rate for individual customer could be an increase or decrease of 25 basis points compared to the current rate of interest they are paying. However, existing customers [...]

Home Loan Amortization For Periodic Payments

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Amortization is the process of clearing out your home loan by making periodic payments. Amortized loans are different from other loans due to the way the amount and the structure of each payment is determined. The word “Amortization” or amortisation comes from Middle English “amortisen”. This term means to deaden or kill, as in to [...]