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Singapore Mortgage Home loan or Refinance Home Loan: Elevated Risk for yet to be complete Pre-top properties. by http://www.PropertyBUYER.com.sg
Financial Institution reduces loan quantum for Rivergate Condominium Singapore
There is now elevated Home loan risks for building under construction
(pre-TOP) properties. Some of these properties were sold during the
boom time in 2006 and 2007 with TOP in 2009, 2010 and beyond.
Valuations have since dropped, some heartless financial institutions
do not stand behind their home owner.
Rivergate Condominium
Someone who has bought a Rivergate Condominium unit during the launch
around 2007. He told us he bought it for 00 per square feet for a
property of 2025 sq feet. The price bought was million dollars.
At that time, he arranged home loan financing for 80% of million
from a financial institution (which we shall not name). The loan size
at full disbursement was .2 million dollars.
Recently, just 3 days prior to the TOP, the financial institution
sent valuers to re-value the rivergate condominium unit. They arrived
at a figure of 00 per square feet. This valued the property at
.4 million. Hence, a 80% loan to valuation works out to .92
million.
This leaves the home owner short of .28 million dollars!!! in which
to cough out for TOP payment.
He has to let go of the Rivergate Condominium property at fire sale
prices or work out a plan with the developer. The consequences are
dire. A few more such hard luck cases can really sink an already weak
economy.
Yet another bad example of pro-cyclical behaviour.
Financial institutions have every right in their legal contract to
exercise this adjustment in disburse the home loan quantum.
Disclosure of such risks?
However such a scenario was never fully explained by the bankers on
lending him the money. In fact if you ask many people who has got a
home loan from a bank whether the bank advised them of such a risk,
most people will claim that the bank did not explain this risk to
them.
Worst still are property agents who rushed a home buyer into a deal
by lining up a banker who gives the best valuation, sometimes in
haste to close the deal, the property agent or the banker forget to
alert the home buyer of the risks.
This Rivergate owner has a choice, forfeit all the proceeds paid up
till this point or work out a mutually acceptable plan with the
developer. But the consequences are dire as the properties may be
dumped into the market with few buyers depressing the prices for all
properties, which in turn lead to more financial institutions pulling
the plug on borrowers.
Our question has always been, why lend in the first place and then
to pull it back at the very last moment?
This is another example of pro-cyclical behaviour that typically
makes a recession worse or a boom time bubble bigger than it is. This
totally destroyed that person’s wealth as there is no way he could
have come up with .28 million in 3 days and he may have to dump his
assets cheaply.
Our Opinion
There is now an elevated risk of buying new launches of uncompleted
and yet to be TOP properties. Home buyers who commit to PRE-TOP
and uncompleted (UC) properties with completion dates in 2009, 2010
and perhaps even 2011 is likely to be exposed to risks on their Home
Loans whereby the financial institution(s) reduce the loan size at
their whims and fancy. Do think twice!
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