In 2013, when Aditya Nitsure, 40, software engineer and Smita Barve, 37, a private sector employee bought a property on a joint home loan from LIC Housing Finance, their main reason was the rate of interest. Says Nitsure: “There was an offer of a lower interest rate of 10 per cent on a joint loan of Rs 44 lakh. Currently, the rate is 9.5 per cent. It also increased our eligibility.”
While Nitsure and Barve got a lower rate, one of the main reasons for going a joint home loan is eligibility. It allows the family to buy a bigger