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Latest Housing Loan Package from HSBC

HSBC HOME LOAN PROMOTIONAL RATE Oct 2009

HSBC’s Key advantage :
No Lock in package at very attractive rate (based on transparent index – sibor)

What  is  Sibor?  Sibor  is Singapore Inter Bank Offer Rate, rates at which banks lend in wholesale money market.

HSBC  applies  3  month Sibor rate, as published on Business Times on the  1st  business  day of loan start month for a period of 3 months, following  which  the  rate  will  be re-set to the most current rate again.

Completed properties
For HDB Loan : Minimum $100k
For Private Residential Property : Minimum Loan : $200k

Package 1:
HSBC Loyalty Package :
Year 1: 3mths sibor + 1.20% = 1.88% *
Year 2: 3mths sibor + 1.10% = 1.78% *
Year 3: 3mths sibor + 1.00% = 1.68% *
Based on currrent sibor of 0.68% *
Please note that the actual rate will be based on the sibor rate re-set every 3 mths.

Package 2:
Standard spread
Standard All year : 3mths sibor + 1.10% = 1.78%*
Based on currrent sibor of 0.68% *
Please note that the actual rate will be based on the sibor rate re-set every 3 mths.

Applies to both package :

  • Repayment terms: No lock in penalty
  • For partial repayments : For 1st year of loan, required to leave balance of $100,000 after repayment (subject to 1 mth’s notice)
  • For full repayments: No penalty for full repayment of loan (subject to 3 mth’s notice)

Special benefits for HDB and completed private property:

  1. Legal subsidy 0.5% of loan amount, capped at $2500 (subject to refund is loan is fullyredeemed during 1st 3 years of loan)
  2. Free 1 year fire insurance
  3. Free valuation (only for private property)
  4. Cancellation fee if loan is not utilized after acceptance : 1.5% ofcancelled loan amount

Uncompleted Properties (Building Under Construction – BUC)
For Private Residential Property : Minimum Loan : $200k
Standard All year : 3mths sibor + 1.10% = 1.78%*
Based on currrent sibor of 0.68% *
Please note that the actual rate will be based on the sibor rate re-setevery 3 mths.

Special benefits for uncompleted property (BUC):

  1. Legal subsidy 0.5% of loan amount, capped at $2500 (subject to refund is loan is fully redeemed during 1st 3 years of loan)
  2. Free 5 years fire insurance, start from TOP
  3. Free valuation (for private property only)
  4. Cancellation fee if loan is not utilized after acceptance : 0.75% for selected projects only (check with HSBC)
  5. Other projects : 1.5%

Repayment terms:

  • For partial repayments : For 1st year of loan, required to leave balance of $100,000 after repayment (subject to 1 mth’s notice)
  • For full repayments : No penalty for full repayment of loan (subject to 3 mth’s notice)

Source : HSBC – 2 Oct 2009

Housing loan rules tightened

New home sales in Singapore have shot through the roof recently. Resale prices of many popular projects have also risen from the lows early this year.

THE Government has stepped in to temper exuberance in the property market and preempt speculative bubble from forming.

With immediate effect, it will make it tougher for home buyers to borrow by disallowing interest absorption scheme and interest-only loans to prevent excessive speculation, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan announced in Parliament on Monday.

This means that banks and developers will not be allowed to offer housing loans whereby the borrower only pays the interest and defers

repayment of the principal to a later date.

Mr Mah also announced that the Government will reinstate land sales through its confirmed list system and increase the supply of sites under the “reserve list”.

Sale of state land under the confirmed list was suspended for the first half 2009 Government Land Sales (GLS) Programme to help stave off oversupply risk as the property market here was then on a downtrend.

Instead, state land was only made available under the ‘reserve’ list system for the first half of the year. Continue reading