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Dream Home Loans
Dream Home Loans By Gabriel Chan and Harsha JethnaniTaken from the Sunday Times on 2th of May 2010 If you thought low mortgage rates would stay unchanged this year, think again. Over the last month or so, some banks have upped the spreads they charge above Sibor - the rate at which banks lend to one another - making Sibor-pegged home loans more expensive. The three-month Singapore Interbank Offered Rate, or Sibor, was at 0.54 per cent last week, below the previous all-time low of 0.56 per cent in June 2003. At DBS Bank, a home-buyer taking a loan of 80 per cent of his property's value around March would have paid a rate of Sibor plus 0.5 percentage point for the first year and Sibor plus 0.75 percentage point for the second. A buyer opting for this Sibor- linked DBS package now will have to pay Sibor plus 1 percentage point for the first two years. Some fixed-rate packages have also shot up recently. Standard Chartered Bank's one-year fixed package stood at 1.25 per cent in March, but has risen to 1.95
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