Is housing sensitive to the rate cycle?

Also, since a home loan is a long term loan, this translates into a much higher credit eligibility for a home loan for an end user as compared to an auto loan. Hence, home loans are impacted to a greater extent with a small decrease in interest rates as compared to an auto loan.

With increasing loan eligibility amounts, the purchasing power gets a bigger spurt. The interest impact hence gets magnified for a home loan as compared to an auto loan.

There are other macroeconomic factors governing the housing sector in particular. A very important factor is that rural housing and rural housing finance are a priority sectors as per National Housing Bank. We as financiers have an unsaid responsibility of supporting housing development in rural areas, and provide more impetus towards this sector.