When you borrow a Home Loan, you agree to pay back the full repayment amount within a specified period, known as the repayment tenor. This tenor can stretch up to 30 years to make the repayment process easier for you.
However, you can also make partial payments of the loan sum alongside your regular EMI payments. This can happen if you find yourself with surplus cash and would like to repay more of your pending loan sum to save on your interest outflow. This feature is referred to as part-prepayment and is a facility many choose to bring down their total cost of borrowing a Home Loan.
You may also choose to foreclose your Home Loan, which would mean that you pay back the entire outstanding Home Loan balance in one go before the end of your repayment tenor.
Bajaj Housing Finance allows individual borrowers to make part-prepayments or foreclose their floating interest rate Home Loans at no additional costs.
If an individual borrower prefers to prepay their Home Loan in parts above their regular EMI payments, here are the benefits in store for them:
- Interest Savings: Even if you have a repayment tenor of 30 years, you don’t necessarily have to take that long to repay your loan. When you prepay your loan amount, you bring down the pending loan sum, reducing the total interest payable.
- Wider Repayment Capacity: By prepaying your Home Loan amount, you also free up your financial bandwidth to take up new investments and obligations that help you achieve your future goals.
- Free Facility: As individual borrowers with floating interest rate Home Loans face no penalties for prepaying parts of their Home Loans, they stand to save a lot more at no additional costs.
Keeping these things in mind, borrowers with the ability to do so can consider prepaying their Home Loans in parts, as the feature benefits them in more ways than one.
Non-individual borrowers are subject to nominal fees and charges when they prepay their Home Loan. To understand the charges better, click here.
Other Conditions of Making Home Loan Part-Prepayments
- The part-prepayment amount has to be equal or greater than at least 1 EMI
- Part-prepayments can be initiated only after the clearance of the first EMI
Every Home Loan decision should be well thought out – even making part-prepayments. Use the Home Loan prepayment calculator to see how much you stand to save on your outstanding loan balance by making an early payment. Here are the steps to use it:
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Select your principal loan amount using the first slider
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Select your part-prepayment amount using the next slider
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Select your existing EMI amount using the third slider
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Select your repayment tenor (in months) using the next slider
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Lastly, select your current Home Loan interest rate
The calculator window will show you the revised EMI amount that you have to pay from the next cycle.
*Terms and conditions apply
