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Housing Finance

Housing Finance
• Housing Finance is a business of financial
intermediation wherein the money raised
through various sources such as public
deposits, institutional borrowings, refinance
from NHB and their own capital is lent to
borrowers for purchasing a house.
• Money is lent by accepting mortgage by
deposit of title deeds of the residential
property
Housing Finance Institutions (HFIs)
1. Scheduled Commercial Banks
2. Scheduled Cooperative Banks
3. Regional Rural Banks
4. Agriculture and Rural Development Banks
5. Housing Finance Companies
Types of Housing Loans
1. Home-equity loans
2. Home-extension loans
3. Home-improvement loans
4. Home-purchase loans
5. Land-purchase loans
6. Home loans to self-help groups / Micro-
finance institutions
7. Loans to NRIs
Risk Management
• Credit Risk
• Liquidity risk
• Foreign-exchange risk
• Interest rate risk
National Housing Bank
• Established in 1988 under an act of parliament
the National Housing Bank Act, 1987
• Functions: Regulation and Supervision of
HFCs, Financing and Promotion &
Development
• Principal agency to promote housing finance
institutions and to provide financial and other
support to such institutions

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