BCom CA
127 Points
Joined August 2011
Dear Abhishek,
Taking home loan or not, is your option. We can only provide you with the suggestions.
Suggestion 1: If you are a person who can take risks, then please dont buy a house using your own funds. Find a place to invest at a rate more than the home loan rate and enjoy the difference. For eg:, invest in mutual funds, earn returns, pay interest on home loan and enjoy the difference.
Pro's : You have an oppurtunity to earn extra money, and your savings increases & as well you get some tax exemptions.
Con's : Its quite a risky suggestion, there are chances of negative earning,in case you investments dont give you the required income.
Sugggestion 2: Invest using your own fund and relax.
Pro's: There are no chances of you having any tension, peace of mind guarented.
Con's: No oppurtunity of earnng extra money, other than increase in realty rates.
Please dont make tax exemption as a deciding factor in whether to take a loan or not. Anyways for your informations, you can get relief in 2 places:
1) Interest deduction of Maximum Rs 150,000 in Income from House Property. f i assume this will be your only property, then you can deduct, max 150,000 from your salary before paying tax.
2) Principal repayment of home loan will be allowed as a deduction under sec 80C. You can take this deduction against salary as well.
By seeing your other post, i came to know that you already have investments, if you think you can earn more from these investments than housing rate loan, go ahead with suggestion 1, else suggestion 2.
Regards
Sanyam Sultania