Housing finance growth likely to slow down to 13-15% in FY20: ICRA

17 Jun 2019 Evaluate

ICRA in its latest report has said that housing finance growth may slow down to 13-15% in current financial year (FY20), lower than the average of the past three years, due to the lingering liquidity issues faced by non-banking lenders. It highlighted the issues with the non-banking lenders since last September that has seen a slew of companies like DHFL and Reliance Capital suffering, slowed down credit growth of dedicated housing finance companies to 10% in last financial year (FY19). The overall industry loan growth for housing finance companies had slowed down to 15% for FY18.

It further mentioned that there can also be an adverse impact on the outstanding housing credit, which stood at Rs 19.1 lakh crore as of March 2019. It can be noted that the government is betting on housing sector as one of the major vehicles to push the sagging economic growth. However, given the under-penetration of mortgages, it expects growth to recover soon. The gross non-performing assets ratio from the overall housing finance exposures increased to 1.5 in March 2019, from 1.1 a year ago.

There could be some pressure on the asset quality owing to the challenging operating environment and the emerging risk factors. Besides, it said banks grew faster at 19% as against 13%, taking their overall market share to 64% from 62% in the year-ago period, and added that banks will lead the growth curve in FY20 as well.

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