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Reverse mortgage

Are the new home loan interest rates applicable to reverse mortgage loans as well?

R. Tirupurasundari, Srirangam

No. Reverse mortgage loans are not exactly housing loans but in the nature of personal loans. In the event, they normally attract higher rates of interest. Reverse mortgage conceptually was born out of the need to supplement income of those people sitting on hot properties but having no source of income whatsoever. Therefore its connection with house is only tangential though not tenuous.

S. MURLIDHARAN

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