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Mortgage lenders Bajaj Housing Finance and LIC Housing Finance on Monday announced a 0.50 per cent hike each in their lending rates. The revisions come amid a rising interest rates scenario, which has seen the RBI hiking its key lending rate by 1.40 per cent since May to tame inflation. Bajaj Housing Finance hiked its rate by 0.50 per cent, and the lowest priced product for the salaried and professional applicants will be 7.70 per cent now, as per an official statement. Despite the latest hike, the company claimed to be offering loans at competitive rates compared to most of its peers. LIC Housing Finance has increased its prime lending rate (LHPLR) by 0.50 per cent and the new interest rates on home loans will now start from 8 per cent as against 7.50 per cent previously. The company's chief executive and managing director Y Viswanatha Gowd said the RBI's decision to hike the repo rate by 0.50 per cent has caused "minimum fluctuation" in monthly instalments or tenure of home loan
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LIC Housing Finance Ltd's net profit rose sharply by 503 per cent year-on-year to Rs 925.48 crore on back of uptick in net interest income, as against Rs 153.44 crore in the same quarter last year.
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Says hike is in line with market scenario; rates are still very competitive and demand for home loans is to likely to sustain
With this, "the company will take the share of project finance from 5 per cent to 10 per cent in incremental business in the current year", said Y Viswanatha Gowd, MD and CEO, LIC Housing Finance.
The company's board recommends a dividend of Rs 8.5 per share of Rs 2 each.
For borrowers with CIBIL score of 700 and above, the rate hike has been limited to only 20 bps, LIC Housing Finance said in a statement, adding that the revised rates are applicable from Friday
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Shares of LIC Housing Finance (LICHFL) on Friday zoomed nearly 13 per cent after the firm reported a 6 per cent increase in profit after tax for the quarter ended December 2021. The stock jumped 12.63 per cent to Rs 389 on the BSE. On the NSE, it rallied 12.59 per cent to Rs 389. Mortgage lender LIC Housing Finance on Thursday reported a 6 per cent increase in profit after tax at Rs 767.33 crore for the quarter ended December 2021, aided by higher collections and drop in provisions. It had reported a profit after tax of Rs 727.04 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal. "The income levels were more or less maintained. Our collections were good during the three months of the quarter. Recovery also picked up across all the regions. "Even the provisions were less in the quarter because of the provisions we had made earlier," the company's Managing Director and CEO Y Viswanatha Gowd said. The lender reported better growth in the quarter due to higher disbursements during the
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