"We are interested in reverse mortgage. We are working on it and the product will be launched in a couple of months as the National Housing Bank (NHB) has already come out with guidelines," LICHFL Chief Executive Officer and Director S K Mitter told PTI.
Under the reverse mortgage, senior citizens and their spouse will get loan of up to 45 per cent of the value of their property with repayment stretching to up to 15 years, he said. The person seeking reverse mortgage would have the option of getting the property revalued every five years and at the end of the term of the mortgage, he has to repay the loan amount with interest, he said.
The scheme would be available for senior citizens aged up to 75. One of the spouses could, however, be 55-60 years if the property is jointly owned. Giving details of the scheme that is being worked out with the housing companies, he said the interest on reverse mortgage would be a floating rate on par with the prevailing rates on housing loans.
Since the issue of guidelines by the NHB, so far two lenders have announced plans for reverse mortgage scheme - Dewan Housing Finance and Bank of Baroda.
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