If your home loan is linked to MCLR, switching to a repo-linked home loan rate can reduce your interest costs. However, do the math first and calculate the savings instead of relying on vague estimates.
Home loan tenor of 40 years brings down the EMIs and increases affordability. But it increases the interest burden significantly.
As interest rates are on an upward trend and there are no signs of any rate cut soon, both first-time home buyers and other home loan borrowers should look forward to availing fixed-rate loans, instead of floating-rate loans
Those who had taken a home loan as far back as 2015 or 2016 would have benefited from falling interest rates. But those who bought properties—and took loans to refinance them—when interest rates had bottomed out during the Covid-19 lockdowns will feel the pinch
To do a balance transfer, you must check the transfer cost, outstanding loan amount, tenor, and difference in the interest rates.
You should take into account various factors before you answer this question. Here is how to go about it.