Home loan borrowers may have to wait longer for lower EMIs but a rate cut likely this year; how to make th

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Long wait for home loan borrowers to get some respite high interest rate is likely to be a bit longer as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held on June 7 decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%..

Interest rate on home loan had risen sharply after RBI went for a 2.5% hike in repo rate between May 2022 and February 2023..

As a result home loan borrowers had to pay much higher EMI and have been eagerly looking for interest rate cycle to reverse so that their EMIs could come down..

We tell you how long you will have to wait for an interest rate cut, how significant the rate cut could be this year and what you should do with your home loan...

Forecasts regarding inflation might be revised down slightly, while growth predictions regarding GDP are expected to remain stable, says Atul Monga, CEO & Co-founder of BASIC Home Loan...

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