India’s real estate sector has been sagging for the past 2 quarters of FY 19-20 due to reasons like tight liquidity condition, default by builders and unaffordability affecting both builders and aspiring home buyers. To help the housing sector to overcome such depressing situations and to increase the affordability of property buyers, lately, the Central…
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The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India has once again reduced repo rate by 25 basis points (bps). Earlier the repo rate was 5.40%. And after the rate cut, it has been reduced to 5.15%, which is the lowest since March 2010. In its 4th bi-monthly policy review meeting, the…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all banks to link their loan products to key repo rates or external benchmarks. The move will come into effect from 1 October 2019.
To own a house is a dream that can be fulfilled through different ways. One of them can be by availing a home loan, which is a long-term commitment with repayment period extending up to 25 to 30 years. Considering the uncertainty of life, it is quite natural to get anxious about the loan liability…
A reduction in the repo rate is a good news for home loan borrowers because of the fact that the rate cut has a direct impact on the home loan interest rate and home loan EMI (Equated Monthly Instalment). The existing and the potential home loan borrowers got this good news on June 6, 2019,…
Union Budget 2019: 1.95 crore houses will be built under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) from the financial year 2020 to 2022.
Union Budget 2019: Home loan tax benefit has increased from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 3.5 lakh. Homebuyers can avail the benefit till March 2020.
The State Bank of India (SBI) announced to link its home loan products to repo rate. From July 1, customers will have the option to avail repo rate-linked home loans. The bank will continue to offer MCLR-linked home loans along with the repo rate-linked home loan products. The new product will be slightly different from…
Home loans may become cheaper as RBI slashes repo rate by 25 bps. The repo rate has reduced from 6.00% to 5.75%.