Lenders generally finance for loan acquired from an institution.
- Buying under – construction / new or resale residential property.
- Construction of house
- Buying a plot of land for construction of dwelling unit.
- Renovation and extension of existing residential property.
- Refinance of existing home loan.
Loan Amount
Normally financial institutes finance maximum up to 80 to 90 % of the agreement value or market value of the property whichever is lower. As per RBI notification, banks/NBFCs do not fund stamp duty and registration charges anymore. This means that your down payment will have to be at least 10 to 20% of the agreement value of the property plus 100% of other costs such as stamp duty, registration charges, etc.
The final loan amount is dependent on host of other factors like income and regular outgoings existing loans, repayment track record, valuation of the property by the lender etc.
Interest Type
Very few financial institutes offer pure “Fixed” interest rate that remains fixed for the entire duration of loan. Nowadays some lenders offer “ Dual rate” where the interest rate remains fixed for duration 1 – 10 years and then gets converted to floating rate of interest.
In “ Floating” rate , the interest rate fluctuates with market conditions. The rate of interest is tied up with the Base rate (BR) of the bank or Prime lending rate (PLR) of the Housing Finance Companies and gets affected whenever there are changes in the repo rates announced by RBI or any changes in Base rate / PLR of the lender.
Repayment Term
Most lenders offer maximum tenure of 30 years but it is also restricted by the borrower’s age at the end of the tenure so as to ensure that the loan repayment ends on or before the retirement age of the borrower which is usually 60 years for salaried and 65 years for self - employed borrowers.
Fees & Charges
Every loan has a costs attached to it like processing fees or administrative fees which are non - refundable, Legal fees payable to the lender or to the legal consultants of the lender, Stamp duty on creation of mortgage, etc.
Foreclosure charges are applicable only on fixed rate loans taken from Bank/NBFCs.