Housing finance major HDFC Limited has partnered with India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer a mortgage-guaranteed home loan product. The partnership aims to make it possible for HDFC to further penetrate home loan market and access an enlarged customer base, helping them to own a home of their choice.
This product will help HDFC to offer more loan to a home loan customer on an enhanced eligibility. It also helps customers to avail loans beyond their retirement period. The finer details of the product are being worked out and will be known to market soon.
Commenting on this partnership,
The partnership would address the needs of a wide range of customers in three defined variants. These include middle age -salaried customers, self employed customers and young salaried customers and a wide segment of customers who have been hitherto unserviced.
Mahesh Misra, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), IMGC, said, “HDFC Ltd is known for its leadership position in the housing finance segment. We are witnessing great acceptance of our product in the Indian housing finance sector. We see stepped-up interest in using Mortgage Guarantee as an effective risk mitigant across lending categories.”
Mortgage guarantee or Mortgage Insurance as it is known in some markets, is very well-established in US, Australia, and Canada with market penetration of 15 per cent in US and 22 per cent in Canada Likewise, in India , Mortgage guarantee is on a rise with market penetration between five per cent and 20 per cent across lenders who are leveraging the product to grow their books.