{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HOME PENSION","provider_url":"https:\/\/habil.homes\/home","author_name":"habil.homes","author_url":"https:\/\/habil.homes\/home\/author\/habil-homes\/","title":"FAQ'S - HOME PENSION","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WEZk5L6Eh7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/habil.homes\/home\/faqs-2\/\">FAQ&#8217;S<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/habil.homes\/home\/faqs-2\/embed\/#?secret=WEZk5L6Eh7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;FAQ&#8217;S&#8221; &#8212; HOME PENSION\" data-secret=\"WEZk5L6Eh7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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HABIL helps seniors leverage their home equity through structured Home Equity Conversion plans, ensuring a steady monthly income to cover the gap between their investment returns and living expenses without depending on their children or liquidating their investments in FD, MF or Equity Shares they had invested before their retirement. Selling their home and moving to a smaller flat or going for JV can be postponed for several years to take advantage of the appreciation of their property. What is meant by a &quot;Home Equity Conversion\u201d or Home Pension payout? Mortgages on self-occupied real estate (a house or an apartment) are used to supplement senior citizens&#039; cash flow streams and meet their moderate financial needs. To put it another way, the borrower receives a monthly income (payout) from the bank leveraging the appreciation of their property. There is no monthly EMIs as the appreciation of the property yields income on a monthly basis. How much money do you get from a home equity conversion? Each bank has a different limit to be offered under Home Equity Conversion payouts based on the value of the property, appreciation, age of the property, and the time duration for which the payouts are required. This is not a life-long payouts as the final settlement is done with funds from children or disposal of other assets or converting the HEC into a regular mortgage by the interested children etc. There are several options including JV redevelopment contract with the empaneled builders. The payout is to bridge the gap between current investment yields and the living expenses to ensure that only as much as it is required to be drawn on a flexible basis is drawn to preserve as much equity in the property at the end of the pre-determined number of years. At what age can you take a home equity conversion? One of the borrowers should be at least 60years of age and the spouse should be at least 55years of age. This is likely to be revised to 55 years based on the recommendations that we have provided to NHB and NITI Aayog. Hopefully there will be wider consultations with all stake holders soon. How does home equity conversion lending work in India? Under a home equity conversion, the borrower receives a monthly payout from the bank in exchange for a mortgage on their primary residence. We are trying to relax this clause so that any property owned by the senior citizen or spouse can be leveraged for Home Pension. Where the primary residence is let out for higher rentals and you are staying at a different apartment elsewhere at a lower rental can also be eligible once our recommendations are considered by the authorities. Does a home equity conversion have any consequence on your credit? No Is money from a home equity conversion taxable? No What credit score is needed for a home equity conversion? Credit score is not a criterion to apply for a home equity conversion loan Can you lose your house with a home equity conversion? You plan how long you would like to receive the payouts under HEC and then take steps to clear the loan as the purpose of leveraging the house property is to get additional income for maintaining your lifestyle. After the loan period is over, the borrower won&#039;t lose their property if they pay their total dues (monthly payouts and cumulative interest) in full. HABiL provides guidance to the senior citizens to finalize the number of payouts that they would like to receive in such a way that the appreciation covers the cumulative interest. HABiL with several tie-ups with Retirement Homes \/ Old Age Homes provide a glide path to the senior citizen to shift to a Retirement Home or redevelop under JV with a builder who undertakes to settle the HEC dues fully and rework the share in the JV. You can choose to receive additional free apartments for rental yields or choose an apartment in the retirement home instead that serves the same purpose of rental income as demand for rentals within Retirement Communities is high and yield is much better. Who owns the house in a home equity conversion? Property is owned by borrowers. Nevertheless, senior citizen is required to mortgage the property with the lending institutions (Home Finance Companies, banks or NBFCs) and at the end of the agreed period settle the dues to the institutions with various options explained earlier. How do you pay back for a home equity conversion? This is to be decided upfront as the lender is not the right option to sell the property to recover the loan. Depending on the age, the number of years that HEC payouts to be drawn to be decided so that there is a smooth transition to the Retirement Home chosen based on capital available after appreciation. Children can clear the dues or flip the HEC into regular mortgage or sell or go for JV with the builder who mobilizes funds to clear the dues to take back the document for JV agreement execution. What happens at the end of a home equity conversion? The loan will get paid back as per the preference of senior citizen\/ legal heirs as the period of HEC is decided upfront with the expected total amount due including the cumulative interest. If the decision is to redevelop the property under JV, then the builder \/ senior citizen arranges to clear the dues and take back the documents from the lender. The share in JV gets reworked as per the loan amount cleared by the builder and senior citizen temporarily moves to another flat as tenant or through HABiL rents an apartment at their preferred Retirement Home providers partnered with our platform: HABiL. The senior citizens move back to their primary apartment built under the JV agreement. Builder acquires a unit in the"}