Thanks guys for your sifu advice!
Notice that there is this term in the RHB offer, hope that you sifus can help to shed some light on this...
Provided that all payment deal on the banking facility (whether principle and / or interest ) shall have been paid up to date, you are at liberty at any time without prior notice to prepay the outstanding amount of the banking facility in whole or in part subject to the following condition.
1) for partial prepayment of the housing / term loan, no prepayment fee will be chargeable provided that each partial prepayment shall be multiples of RM1,000 or such amount as the bank may at its discretion except.
- Does this mean if If I don't pay a multiple of RM1,000, I will be charged a prepayment fee by trying to pay extra to lower the principle? Also, if I don't pay that multiple, any additional will be counted as advance payment?
2). In the case where the bank has given an undertaking to release the banking facility to the developer, contractor or any person concern with the construction of the property and pending the release of the same in full, prepayment of the whole outstanding amount of the banking facilities is allowed only upon the condition that you obtain and furnish the bank a letter of confirmation from such party discharging the bank from all obligations under the said undertaking. -
So confucious, what is this?
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Obviously your loan is not full flexi. RHB semi flexi has this restriction that the excess payments will only be used to reduce principal and interest if it is in multiple of RM1000. Amount not in that multiple will be kept in a non-interest bearing advance payment account which gives you nil benefits, ie not reducing loan principle and interest nor getting interest income from this advance payment. No prepayment fee will be charged for the prepayment whether is in multiple of RM1000 or not. This is what I gather from the RHB banker.
For Q2, if you have prepayed the full loan outstanding while the Bank has yet to release the full sum, theoretically your loan has already been fully settled. However, the bank's undertaking to the developer still remains. So, to protect the bank interest, the bank would want the developer to discharge its obligation when the loan outstanding is fully prepaid.