Home loan interest rate to remain at multi-year low as RBI keeps repo rate unchanged
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the policy rates steady at its penultimate meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) for the financial year 2021-22 in February 2022. As a result, the repo rate has remained unchanged at 4%, while the reverse repo rate has remained unchanged at 3.35 percent. The interest rate on a house loan is influenced directly and immediately by the RBI repo rate. The repo rate is the interest rate at which banks borrow money from the RBI, whereas the reverse repo rate is the interest rate at which banks earn money by depositing excess funds with the RBI. Since October 1, 2019, the RBI has required banks to offer retail loans, like as home loans and vehicle loans, that are tied to an external benchmark, most often the RBI repo rate. Fresh home loans are typically based on a bank's Repo Linked Lending Rate (RLLR), also known as an external benchmark rate (EBR). When the RBI changes the repo rate, the change in the interest rate in RLLR is more faster fo