Latest Home Loan Trends in India - An Overview - Home Loan Stories

If you are planning to buy a home with the help of a home loan, you need to keep track of the current trends and their relevant impact on the home loan sector. Outlined below are a few recent developments in the sector:

With the new year (2019) ringing-in, interest rates on home loans have been hiked slightly by almost all the lending institutions. In contrast to this move by the lending institutions came the news that the RBI Governor has nudged the country’s top bankers to reduce the financing cost to encourage investment
With the election fever setting in, one may think a favourable climate will be setup for investment by lowered lending rates. Home loans being a major contributor to the financing sector, it is natural to expect an interest rate cut in that segment. For home buyers this could have been a silver lining on the ongoing trend. As for now, this may be taken only as ‘wishful thinking’ because despite RBI lowering the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points, most of the lenders have not lowered housing loan interest rates
However there is a positive change in the tax norms for home loan. Currently if you own more than one property for self-occupation, only one of them would be considered as self-occupied for taxation purposes. The other property / properties would be considered as deemed to be let-out and the notional rent attracts tax if it is lying vacant. Now there is an amendment in the recent interim budget. The new proposal in the budget from FY 2019 states that both the houses would be considered as self-occupied and notional income would not surface in this case. The total interest on both the home loans i.e. for self-occupied properties can be used as deduction up to a limit of Rs. 2 lakh
Floating interest rates will keep swaying depending on multiple market factors from time to time. If you dream of buying a home with the help of a home loan, you can’t be waiting for that ‘right time’ to come. The earlier you act, the better it is, because your housing loan eligibility will be higher for a longer repayment tenure

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Latest home loan trends in India - an overview

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