SBI Cuts Car, Home Loan Rates 50bps

State Bank of India on Wednesday cut interest rates on loans for homes and cars, a move that could benefit millions of consumers. By cutting rates, the country’s largest lender is trying to capture the growing retail segment in the face of falling demand for loans from corporates. 
The move will force rival private sector and state-run peers to lower interest rates, which could put pressure on their profitability. SBI did not say whether lower rates will be applicable to existing customers. 
“We have targeted the retail segment because the instrument of interest rate should be used for increasing credit flow,” SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said in an interview to ET NOW. “Large term loan proposals are very few and working capital for good corporates is already happening below base rates...So, for a bank like us, the option is to accelerate the retail (lending).” The rate on car loans now stands at 10.75%, down from 11.25%, which will translate into a monthly repayment of . 1,699 on a seven-year loan, compared with . 1,725 earlier. The rate on home loans up to . 30 lakh will fall to 10.25% from 10.5%. Forloans between . 30 lakh and . 75 lakh, the rate will be 10.4%, down from 10.75%. For home loans over . 75 lakh, the rate will be 10.4%, compared with 11% earlier. The new rates will be effective from August 7.

Interest Rate of LICHFL in August 2012

Interest Rate of LICHFL in August 2012

A New Limited Edition Floating Rate Product called “YUVA” has been introduced w.e.f 01.08.2012 by LICHFL. This product is offered for a Limited Period of 3 Months i.e., for loans sanctioned till 31.10.2012 and for 1st Disbursements to be availed on or before 30.11.2012.:-

Amount of Loan	Interest Rate
Upto and including Rs 40 lacs	10.75%
More than Rs 40 lacs and less than Rs 75 lacs	11.00%
Rs 75 lacs & above upto Rs 1.50 cr	11.25%

This product is Floating Rate of Interest for the first 3 years from the date of first disbursement & would be linked to PLR prevalent on the date of first disbursement. However after 3 years Interest rate will be PLR-250BPS & 75 lacs to 1.50 Cr will be PLR-225BPS

Other products of LICHFL are Grand 3 & Advantage 5

Amount of Loan	Grand 3	New Advantage 5
Upto 40 Lacs	10.70%	11.15%
40 Lacs to 1 crore`	11.25%	11.40%
1 crore to 1.50 crore	11.75%	11.65%

Grand 3 is fixed for 3 years & floating thereafter. New Advantage 5 is fixed for 5 Years & floating thereafter.

Home loan top up is cheaper than personal Loan

These days if you have Home Loan on your house you can get top up on that loan for your personal use. The top up Loan on your home Loan is much cheaper as compared to the Personal loan. It’s come with a interest rate of 13-14% p.a. as compared to the Personal loan whose Rate of Interest is ranging from 15-20% as well as higher Processing Fees.

So if you need personal loan for your personal use like sisters or daughters marriages etc. you can go for home Loan Top up on the existing Loan or loan against property as the same is much cheaper than the personal loan & very easy to process.

If you already have home loan you just need to approach your existing financer for top up on the same. The financer will provide you the loan faster as the property is already mortgaged to them if the financier have margin for the same. Since the end use of the loan is different & not for home purchase or construction, obviously the rate of interest for the top up loan will be higher. However the interest rate on your home loan portion will be same as of earlier & will not be effected by your top up loan interest rate. Financer will just treat those as two separate loan account though the property is same.

Same way if a person does not have any loan on his home can approach financers for his/her business loan/ personal loan needs by offering house as mortgage for cheaper rate of interest.

[For any query on the said matter write your query to Housingfinance.advisor@gmail.com]

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Prepayment charge on Home Loan

Prepayment Charge

RBI as well as NHB (National Housing Bank) has abolished prepayment charge/penalty on prepayment of home loan from this April 2012 onwards. Some Banks were charging 1-2% penalty on prepayment of their home loans.

Now from April 2012 onwards Bankers are bound to waive the prepayment penalty on pre payment of Home Loans. The borrowers on floating rate of interest will need not to pay prepayment charge whether its paid from own source or it’s a takeover by any other banks. However borrowers on fixed rate of interest would get this benefit only on payment from its own sources.

The borrowers on fix-o-floaty scheme (where interest rate is fixed for certain period & floating thereafter) will be considered as fixed interest rate borrower without considering the fact that whether the borrower is at the time of prepayment is under fixed or floating rate of interest. Therefore they will get the benefit of prepayment charge abolishment only if they pay the amount from their own sources.

The borrowers with good track record & paying a high floating rate of interest, mainly the borrowers who borrowed long time back, can consider for takeover of their loan from any other bank to minimize the interest burden. By the same time borrowers with idle money in hand can consider for prepayment to utilize the idle money by saving interest on their home loan.

For any query on the above article mail us at housingfinance.advisor@gmail.com

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