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HSBC equity-linked loan with cash rebates

HOME buyers can now take a punt on the stock market while diving into the resurgent property market.

HSBC is launching today an equity-linked home loan package that also offers cash rebates to its customers – a first in Singapore.

It will give all new and existing HSBC Premier customers in Singapore a chance to enjoy quarterly cash rebates over a period of two years if a certain stock index that it is linked to does well.

A minimum loan size of $200,000 is needed.

The package – which applies to both new and refinancing loans – is tied to the Morgan Stanley Capital International Singapore Free Index, which currently tracks 27 stocks, including those of the three local banks, the Singapore Exchange and Singapore Press Holdings.

Under the package, which does not come with a lock-in period, customers will pay an interest rate pegged to the three-month Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (Sibor) plus 1.1 per cent throughout the loan tenure. Continue reading

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