Here are the main types of home loans offered by various Indian banks:
Home Purchase Loans: Ideal for first-time home buyers, this category comprises the basic forms of home loans.
Home Improvement Loans: These loans are intended to finance the repair and renovations of already purchased homes or properties.
Home Construction Loans: Those who intend to construct a new home are eligible for these loans.
Home Extension Loans: If you want to finance the expansion or extension of your existing home, consider this category.
Home Conversion Loans: When a homebuyer intends to buy and move to a new house while residing in a home purchased through a home loan, s/he can apply for a home conversion loan. This eliminates the need for paying off the existing loan as this amount is added to the new loan.
Land Purchase Loans: One can take a land purchase loan to buy land for the purpose of construction and investment.
Bridge Loans: If you want to purchase a new home by selling your present home, you can take a bridge loan. The financing is available until the homeowner finds a buyer for the existing home.
Mortgage fraud involves manipulation of information in the home loan application for the benefit of the borrower, seller or a third party for e.g. a realtor. The loan agency has to bear the cost of mortgage fraud in most cases, especially if it fails to uncover the criminals.
A mortgage fraud can be a fraud for property or a fraud for profit. A buyer putting in wrong income or employment status to get loan approval amounts to mortgage fraud.
In case of mortgage fraud for profit, a buyer takes away the profits while defrauding the loan agency. The most common way of committing this fraud is appraisal fraud, along with unlawful property flipping. In appraisal fraud a buyer artificially appraises the actual cost of the house and sells it to someone not necessarily a party to the scheme. In such cases, although the seller gets paid, the loan agency has to bear the loss of default on the loan.