Term & Rate of Interest for a Home loan to be chosen

Term: A max­i­mum term of 25 years is allowed for mort­gage but in a study its shows that most of the Indi­an bor­row­er prefers to go for 20 years term peri­od. The gen­er­al con­sen­sus seems like if you can afford a 10–15-year loan, you should go for it. The inter­est rate will be low­er, you own your home in at an ear­ly stage, and the pay­ments aren’t actu­al­ly that much high­er. Just for an exam­ple if you choose a term of 15 years instead of 20 years yours EMI will be high­er by 10.30% than what you will be pay­ing for 20 years but your term gets reduced by 25%. 

Inter­est Rate: The rate is sug­gest­ed to be a fixed rate of inter­est. The fixed rate of inter­est seems to be a bit high­er than float­ing at the ini­tial stage but it shows in a study that float­ing rate of inter­est becomes high­er than then the fixed rate of Inter­est over the peri­od after it goes for 2–3 reviews by the bank/company. The float­ing rate looks to be a lucra­tive at the ini­tial stage but banks/company takes it to a high­er rate by chang­ing its poli­cies at the time of each review of Inter­est. Nor­mal­ly float­ing Inter­est rate goes for a review at every 3 months interval.

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