July 2018

How a middle income person can buy a HOUSE – “Kyunki Apna Ghar toh Apna hota hai”

Have you ever thought that if money was never an object you could have bought your dream house? That might be a cozy villa having a private garden as well as swimming pool or a private condo having sea view like it is shown in James Bond movies. Thinking? You might go out of your budget.

Everyone has an idea of their dream homes but as money as an object comes into the picture your aspirations are toned down. Most of the home-buyers when decide to convert their dream home into reality by stretching their finances they might end up denting their finances. But not anymore, affordable housing scheme helped many people to fulfill their dreams to buy their own house. The slowdown in real estate sector also lightens the burden of the buyer. A few years back rates of the property were hitting the roof but today home-buyer can a find a place to dwell for spending their life with their family.

The vision of Modi government that every citizen of India has their own house by the end of the year 2022. To back this vision the government is pursuing and encouraging the builders to come up with projects that fall under affordable housing schemes. Under this scheme, the target is to make house between 10lakh to 30lakh so that lower and middle class group can afford it. Even the home loans are available at a very economical rate. This will lead to increase the quality of living standard of people.

Projects under the affordable housing schemes are launched in states Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan etc. and the state government is providing all the possible assistance to the builders. As per Times of India, their government has made two classifications for Middle Income Group (MIG).

  1. MIG-I having an income of 6-12 lakh will get loan up to 9 lakh with interest subsidy of 4% for a tenure of 20 years. Therefore at the end of tenure, the borrower will end up paying an interest subsidy of 2.35 lakh for 9 lakh.
  2. MIG-II having an income of 12-18 lakh will get loan up to 12 lakh with interest subsidy of 3% for a tenure of 20 years. Therefore at the end of tenure, the borrower will end up paying an interest subsidy of 2.30 lakh for 12 lakh.

The Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) and National Housing Bank (NHB) have been acknowledged as central nodal agencies to channelize this subsidy to the lending institutions, including banks and financial institutions. Therefore, small banks, non-banking finance companies and micro-finance institutions will be recognized as primary lending institutions under the scheme.

Additional loans are also available at a non-subsidies rate. Under the scheme, widows, single working women, persons belonging to SC/ST, OBC, differently abled and trans-genders will be given preference.

Paarth Infrabuild, Real Estate Developers, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India