Home Loan – Let's simplify how this will go about and what are the steps.

The first step involved in the process is to find your property, which is followed by the verification of property documents, post that the documents are examined. Simultaneously, you can start searching for the lender who can offer the best home loan deal after checking your eligibility criteria.

Know the Home Loan Eligibility:

Banks offer the loan amount based on your monthly income and the value of the property. They will give you max amount in which your EMI of home loan and others loans is 50-60% of your income. Other factor is value of that property.

Select the Best Home Loan after evaluation:

Comparing home loan interest rates of various banks is the primary feature in the home loan selection process. However, you should not also forget to compare other fees & charges like application fees, processing fees, legal charges of different loan offers. To check the interest rates & other charges incurred by various banks, Deal4Loans has brought in a Home Loan Comparison Chart across various government and private banks. Banks offer fixed and floating rates in home loans.

Most customers choose Floating rates

Applying for the Loan :

After you have selected your lender, you have to fill in the application form, wherein the lender requires complete information about your financial assets & liabilities; other personal & professional details together with the property details & its costs.

Documentation & Verification Process:

You are required to submit the necessary documents to the bank, which will be verified together with the details in the application

Credit & default check:

Bank checks out the borrower’s loan eligibility (through repayment capacity) & the amount of loan is confirmed. The borrower’s repayment capacity is reached, which is based on the income, salary, age, experience & nature of business etc. Bank also checks credit history through the Cibil Score, which plays a critical role in deciding & approving your loan application. Low credit score implies that the bank upfront rejects your application on the basis of earlier credit defaults; on the other hand high credit score gives a green signal to your application

Bank sanctions Loan & Offer letter to the borrower:

After the credit appraisal of the borrower bank decides the final amount & sanctions the loan, the bank further sends an offer letter to the borrower, which constitutes the details like rate of interest, loan tenure & repayment options etc.

Acceptance Copy to the Bank:

The borrower needs to send an acceptance copy to the bank after the borrower agrees with the terms & conditions in the offer letter.

Bank checks the legal documents:

The bank further asks the legal documents of property from the borrower to check its authenticity, so as to keep them as a security for the loan amount given. The next step involved is the valuation of the property by the bank which determines the loan amount sanctioned by the bank.

Signing of agreement & the loan disbursal:

The borrower signs the loan agreement & the bank disburses the loan amount.

How to calculate interest rate?

While applying for a home loan, the most important question is rate of interest. One more thing, which is equally important is how interest is calculated by respective bank. Banks are required to quote interest rates on a 'reducing balance' basis. Let's take a look how this whole formula works:

For instance: You have taken a loan of Rs. 1 lakh for a period of one year at an interest rate of 10.00% per annum, on a monthly reducing balance basis. In this situation, you will pay 12 equated monthly instalment’s (EMIs), with a part of each EMI going towards repaying the principal amount borrowed (Rs 1 lakh), and the balance towards servicing the interest on your loan. What is important to note is reducing balance calculation is the interest component of your EMI keeps changing, from a high initial amount in the early part of your loan, to a nominal figures as the loan comes to an end.