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Home loan space has become increasingly competitive lately. What with SBI and ICICI Bank decreasing their home loan rates; and HDFC and ICICI Bank increasing the prepayment penalty from 2 to 3 per cent and 2.25 per cent respectively. What does this mean to you? Let’s understand the impact of prepayment penalty through an illustration. [...]

Getting a home loan nowadays is not an easy task as was witnessed for the last several years. Earlier, various financial institutions and banks were queuing up to lend money on easy terms but now they lay out several conditions before they hand out any money. One of the issues that hits borrowers quite hard [...]

We cannot think of repaying a home loan without Equated Monthly Instalments (EMIs). By depositing the required sum every month, EMIs ensure that the loan repayment is regular, systematic and timely. It is done in two ways: through post-dated cheques (pdcs) and electronic clearing system (ECS). Let us consider the first method here. Anuj has taken [...]

Home loans are long-term loans that continue over a number of years, hence implications of even a small change here can be quite big, especially when it is related to interest rates. Arjun had taken a housing loan of Rs 10 lakh for 15 years at an interest rate of 7.5 per cent a couple [...]

Getting a housing loan nowadays is not an easy task as was witnessed for the last several years. Earlier, various financial institutions and banks were queuing up to lend money on easy terms but now they lay out several conditions before they hand out any money. One of the issues that hits borrowers quite hard [...]