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 Mortgage Loan Package Inquiries, (Strictly NO Promotion Allowed)

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post Feb 18 2016, 05:16 PM

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just pay dp for my first property, i am struggling to decide to get a term loan or flexi?

Any advice?
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post Feb 18 2016, 06:46 PM

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QUOTE(Madgeniusfigo @ Feb 18 2016, 05:42 PM)
Dear,

There's a different between this two

1.
Full flexi:

1) current account tied to loan account
2) auto debit from current account at month end and interest is calculated based on outstanding balance minus amount in current account
3) maintenance charge of RM10 per month
4) setup/ processing fee of Rm200 (certain bank)
5)The liquidity comes in the form of an ATM card or a linked CASA account to the housing loan. 
Example: You have a shop that is opened Monday to Satuday, rest on Sunday. On Saturday, you deposit all your proceeds of the week into the flexi account, on Sunday, you would save [(your-HL-interest-rate)/365]*AmountDeposited worth of interest. On Monday, you withdraw the money to run your business
6) Withdrawal of money or crediting of money through ATM,CHEQUE,OVER THE COUNTER, or online

Semi Flexi

semi flexi package typically has these features:
1) requires you to phone in to indicate the extra payment as early settlement of advance payments
2) if you fail to indicate, you will be charged 1% (some banks do this afaik)
3) if you indicate advance payment, no additional interest is saved as "advance" payment will only be credited to your loan account when it reaches your cycle date, so it is plain advance payments. and must be in multiple of your monthly payment.
4) For redrawable prepayments, you need to indicate separately and Redraw charge of RM50 is imposed (M*B charge Rm25)
5) Withdrawal of money or crediting of money through Cheque or Over the counter
2.
Term loan
1) can pay extra but only into early settlement
2) cannot withdraw the cash
Hence it is troublesome to have term loan account, term loan account quite dinasour age for housing loan. Housing loan nowadays more of opting for flexi.
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Other words, flexi means you can have better cash flow access with chance to reduce your prinicipal if you have the extra cash at a cost of higher interest rate

term loan, you get lower interest rate at the expense of flexibility in payment.

correct me if I am wrong
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post Feb 22 2016, 01:21 PM

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QUOTE(lifebalance @ Feb 18 2016, 07:54 PM)
If you're a salaried person then a semi flexi loan would do.

If you're a businessman and have a huge cash flow then full flexi is better.
interest rate is the same, just that the facility of the loan is different. as my explanation above will help you to do a decision.

Feel free to let me know if you need loan application smile.gif
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Thanks..

Just got my first approval from HSBC, 4.5%, shud be a fully flexi loan.
Ambank on the other hand said there is a RM10 monthly charges for full flexi loan, therefore I am opting for semi flexi, don't think I will need the liquidity.



 

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