| If you plan to buy your dream home, then many | | | | 5. No-Mortgage-Loan: It is a loan where you need not |
| different schemes lead to it: | | | | hand over the house documents but give a lien on |
| Â | | | | your other savings, insurance policies or shares. |
| 1. Home-Loan: It is a term loan scheme with Equated | | | | Â |
| Monthly Installments (EMIs) under fixed or floating rate | | | | 6. Top-up-Loan: Finally, after availing your home loan, |
| of interest. | | | | you can go for top-up-loans for home improvements |
| Â | | | | furniture or fixtures. |
| 2. Overdraft-Loan: It is a home loan in the form of | | | | Â |
| current account overdraft where you can park your | | | | Â |
| surplus funds and thus minimize the interest burden - | | | | Fixed and Floating Interest Loan: You can avail the loan |
| overdraft limit is reduced every month as per the EMI | | | | either on fixed rate of interest or floating rate of |
| amount. | | | | interest. Fixed-interest loans are those for which the |
| Â | | | | interest rate is fixed for the whole tenure. It is insulated |
| 3. Flexi-Loan: It is a loan with one portion of fixed | | | | against market rate fluctuations. Usually, a small |
| interest rate and the other portion with floating interest | | | | premium is loaded to the current interest to offset any |
| rate. | | | | loss to the bank/financial institution. Floating rate of |
| Â | | | | interest is the rate that is linked to the prime lending |
| 4. Realty-Loan: It is to buy a vacant land or plot where | | | | rate of the Central Bank (Federal Reserve) of the |
| you can build your dream home. It helps in beating price | | | | country. If the Central Bank increases (decreases) the |
| rises on realty and build homes later. | | | | prime lending rate, then the bank/financial institution also |
| Â | | | | increases (decreases) its interest rate. |