| Small Talk • Banks cut lending to shoe |
| 30.10.2013, 10:16 - fezdmwqf - Hohlbratze - 908 Posts Banks cut lending to shoe By Andrew Batt (courtesy of PropertyGuru) With the prospect of a drop in property prices emerging large on the horizon, Singapore banks are already tightening their lending criteria. Possible buyers of so named shoebox units are already finding that access to funding is proving to be a challenge. PropertyGuru realizes that at least one bank inside Singapore is now declining almost all finance applications pertaining to properties under Five-hundred sq ft in size the generally recognised measure pertaining to shoebox units in Singapore. Other banks remained tightlipped about their individual policies and also declined to comment on the record any time contacted by PropertyGuru. A staff member of CIMB who declined to be named informed PropertyGuru that financing pertaining to shoebox units is simply no more being offered. "It just too high risk right now" he said, including that he understands nearly all banks are not even considering applications via individuals with a substantial down payment and perfect credit history. For Getty Goh, whose company Montant Assets released analysis about Singapore shoebox property market place late last year, what is this great was expected. He said, "It doesn come as a surprise which banks are reducing on their lending, particularly when the economic outlook for an additional few months remains extremely volatile." How come banks deeming these smaller units to be more risky that other parts of the property sector,parajumpers? Goh believes the answer is simple. He said: "It since some shoebox units are generally asking for unsustainably high persquarefoot rates. In light of the impending residence market slowdown, these high priced units will be the first to be affected by any kind of drop in valuation. This particular drop in asset valuation will, in turn, affect the banks especially when the worth of the collateral is quite a bit less than the loan.Inches Arun Mambully, director of research and editorial on the Asian Banker, echoed Goh comments. He told PropertyGuru, "The potential customers of lower economic growth in Singapore for This year coupled with macroeconomic uncertainties tend to be pushing banks to concentrate on the quality of their resource base. This very same trend is resembled in banks around the world,Parajumpers, as we can see European banks stashing away excessive liquidity with central banks across the globe. Add the rise of house price index for this mix, and you obtain all the ingredients necessary for banks to pull rear lending to more risky asset classes." Buyers of these smaller sized properties are typically people, and unlike those qualities which are purchased for owner occupation, the risk of the buyer defaulting is much greater. Buyers of shoebox products also rely greatly on the rental target repay their loans, and this will also be affected during any prolonged slowdown. Goh added, "Banks are generally ultimately in the business of creating money through financial money. The last thing they really want is to see his or her loans go bad. Just about any rational and accountable bank would obviously not want to make high risk loans especially when the industry outlook has become highly uncertain." |