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Things To Know While Prepaying A Home Loan

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Prepayment penalty, a nightmare suffered often by individual borrowers of home loans, is set to end. Prepayment of a loan means payment of all debts before the due date. Prepayment penalty is an amount charged by banks if a borrower wants to prepay their loan. Prepayment penalty in some banks can range between one and [...]

Avoid Prepayment Penalty On Your Home Loan

Friday, May 20th, 2011

The RBI has shown its displeasure in past on prepayment charges and has been advising the banks against it. The prepayment penalty for public sector banks is about 1% or less while it can be anywhere between 1% and 3% in private banks. According to source, banks do not charge any prepayment penalty if you [...]

How To Lower Your Home Loan EMI

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

The rise in property prices has impacted the fixed and floating rate of interest to a certain degree. As home loan interest rates rise, the housing loan eligibility rules also become tough. Today, when home loan interest rates are high everywhere, banks have the ability to increase tenure up to a certain point. Every EMI [...]

Choosing A Right Home Loan Lender

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Home Loan plays vital role in fulfilling your dream for buying a property or investing in real estate sector. Various banks offer home loan with their own terms and conditions. The first factor most people consider is the interest rate and EMI, but that’s only the beginning. Many banks may be having some fine print [...]

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 [...]

Things to consider before Switching your Home Loan

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Banks and financial institutes are competing with attractive offers to encourage switching home loan. Borrowers can switch home loan to cheaper loans and save good amount in a month. Stable government has inspired and increased hope of investors and property buyers. RBI has brought down key policy rates drastically to bring balance in the economic [...]