The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors hopes the Finance Ministry will consider hiking the housing loan interest deduction limit and bringing down home loan interest rates in the coming Budget.
A press release from RICS quoting its Managing Director and Country Head, Mr Sachin Sandhir, says RICS believes that the Ministry of Finance will consider the proposals submitted by the Housing Ministry and increase the housing loan interest deduction limit to Rs 2.5 lakh or Rs 3 lakh a year along with lowering interest rates to 7.5 per cent for loans in the range of Rs 5 lakh to Rs 30 lakh.
Given the President of India’s ambition of making India slum free in five years, it would be imperative to provide fiscal concessions for building low-cost houses.
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