May 29, 2012

Home loans for your Dream Home


Getting your dream home is not at all tough in today’s scenario.  Many banks, financial institutions, NBFCs and housing finance institutions are willing to give loan at person doorstep. The person will find his mailbox full of mails from various financial institutions that provide home loans, at highly reasonable interest rates along with other benefits attach to it.

The terms and conditions of each bank, NBFCs, financial institutions and housing finance company differs. Though, the home loan interest rates which are levied on the loan amount are more or less close to each other. The lenders of home loan ask for property documents for the security purpose, i.e. in case if the customer defaults in repaying the amount then the bank will seize his property. In banking terminology, we called it as collateral security. The lenders of the home loan scrutinize the property documents, to find the real value or intrinsic value of the property. After doing thorough study of these documents, if bank find it fair and right then, they considered the person property as collateral security.

One can take home loans for various reasons, for the purchase of land or flat or property, or built up house or for renovation of existing house, etc. The lenders have fixed various parameters for granting home loan, which the person, should take care before applying for the home loan.

The person can fill up the form online or can physically submit it in the bank. In this form, the person has to fill up his personal details, such as name, age, contact no, employment details, pan no, passport no, income details, saving details, details of existing loan (if any). The lender takes all these information so to make sure that the person has the repaying ability.

The lenders provide two types of home loan: fixed rate home loan & floating rate home loan. In fixed rate home loan, rate of interest does not change with the change in the market like change in inflation, or in RBI Repo rate or CRR. Whereas, in floating rate home loan, the interest rates changes with change in following criteria, i.e. if the inflation rate increases the interest rate also increases and Vice Versa. The person can also prepay the loan amount without any penalty in floating interest rate.

One should read the terms and conditions of the home loan carefully before signing the document and ensure themselves that the person has understood all the terms, additional charges, interest rates and EMI amount of the loan.

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