Down Payment For Your Home Loan

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Most banks today insist on paying about 10% – 20% of the total cost of the property as a down payment. This ensures that the buyer of the property has his stake in the maintenance of the property and timely payments of instalments for ensuring continued ownership (since the loan amount will be lower than the market value of the property).

Home Loan can provide the applicants with a large sum of investment to be made in the property that can be repaid over a long period of time. One should ensure that the down payment for the property is done out of one’s personal savings. In the case, such an amount is not available then the options available are to take a Gold Loan or a Personal Loan.

The benefits to the banks for taking down payment are:

1. It is Insurance for the lender since the borrower runs the risk of losing money paid for a down payment in case of any default on the Loan
2. Property maintenance is ensured since the borrower has his stake involved.
3. In the case of any market fluctuation, in the value of the property, any downward risk is covered to the extent of the down payment (normally  10-20%).
4. It reduces the amount levied under the home loan interest rates as the interest rates normally paid increase as the value of the loan sum grows.

One of the other important factors for determining the percentage of a down payment is the age of the building that is being purchased. Older properties require a higher amount of down payment to be made by the borrower.

In the end, it is the choice of the applicant where to apply for a home loan, a home loan EMI calculator might prove helpful to understand the terms offered by a bank or NBFC.

Leading Home Loan Providers (Click to Apply)

1. Axis Bank Home Loan
2. Private Bank Home Loan
3. PNB Home Loan
4. HDFC Bank Home Loan
5. SBI Home Loan
6. Citibank Home Loan
7. Bank of Baroda Home Loan
8. Allahabad Bank Home Loan
9. BOI Home Loan
10. Andhra Bank Home Loan
11. Other Banks

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