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The housing sector and by derivative, the housing finance sector presents
the biggest multiplier effect and offers itself as the last bastion of high-
quality growth. To summarize:
Participants
At over US$230bn, the Indian housing finance industry is the only segment
REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE
within the lending pie that continues to support loan growth - for banks and
housing finance companies (HFCs) alike. Banks account for ~58% of the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority
total housing finance industry while HFCs account for the rest. (MahaRERA)
In addition to the broader policy thrust to the housing sector, especially National Housing Bank (NHB)
towards the affordable housing segment (government schemes), the RBI
has recently enhanced its support to the housing finance sector through a
reduction in risk weights and provisioning requirements. Although
disbursements witnessed a healthy 5-year CAGR north of 20% during 2012- COMPANIES
16, loan growth slowed down considerably during FY17. Aadhar Housing Finance
Despite the growing hype around affordable housing, the supply side
Aspire Housing Finance
remains a key constraint with few incremental projects qualifying under the
affordable housing scheme. Edelweiss Retail
The Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) is beginning to impact demand Gruh Finance
elasticity meaningfully in the Middle Income (MIG) segment with the NHB
HDFC
improving its turnaround time (TAT) on CLSS claims to less than a week.
Claims under the CLSS currently number about 40k. LIC Housing Finance
The new-to-mortgage customer segment largely comprises of the self-
Magma Housing Finance
employed customers with limited or no credit history. Hence, a significant
portion of such incremental growth is addressed under the loans against Reliance Home Finance
property (LAP) portfolio and accrues to the smaller housing finance
companies. However, while incremental growth disproportionately accrues
to smaller HFCs, the real challenge will emerge on their ability to retain
customers within the 3-5 year vintage buckets.
In the following pages, we capture the key company-wise takeaways from the
various conference participants.
Krishnan ASV
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Regulatory perspective
Companies
HDFC Limited................................................................................................................ 08
Edelweiss Retail
Commenced operations as retail finance arm of Edelweiss in 2010 - aggregate AUM of
Mr. Anil Kothuri
Rs57bn as of FY17. It has two companies under this: Edelweiss Housing Finance CEO & President
Company and Edelweiss Retail Finance. The HFC focuses on mortgage lending, while
Retail Finance covers secured and unsecured lending to SMEs.
Current loan book stands at ~Rs65bn (housing loan book at Rs45bn and the residual
Rs20bn in SME loans). The housing loan book comprises of Rs20bn of pure-play
mortgage loans and Rs25bn of Loan against Property (LAP). The SME book comprises of
equal portions of secured and unsecured lending. The target for FY18 is to reach
Rs100bn loan book (30% home loans; 40% LAP and 30% SME loans).
In terms of physical presence in the mortgage segment, the company is currently present
in 63 cities across India (22 in TN, 20 in AP/Telangana, 13 in Gujarat and the rest in
Maharashtra and Karnataka). The target is to reach ~100 cities in 2 years, by ramping up
coverage in the existing states and adding MP and Rajasthan to the coverage states. Of
the 63 cities, the company does LAP business in only 16 centres.
Given that the company has been expanding in the recent years, most of its workforce is
hired laterally - a number of employees are laterally hired from a south-based competitor.
The current employee strength of the company is 850. Balance scorecard approach that
uses sanctions, collections, cross selling and many other metrics is used for quarterly
performance appraisal of the employees.
The key difference between secured SME lending versus typical LAP is that in case of
secured SME lending, the LTV is in 125% to 80% range after assessing and grading the
customers based on the business profile.
The company mostly serves the self-employed segment, with ~75%-80% of home loan in
self employed segment. Average ticket size of home loan is ~Rs1.2mn-1.3mn at
origination and LTV is ~50% at the time of origination. The low LTV is explained by the
segment of customer that Edelweiss serves. A Tier-3 town self employed segment
generally thinks of home loan to fill the gap between his corpus and the house price and
hence unlike big cities, salaried buyers in this segment go for lower LTV. The current
incremental blended yield on home loans is ~10.5%. In the LAP portfolio, average ticket
size is Rs5mn, while LTV is ~50%.
The yields in home loans are in ~10.5% range, ~11.5% in LAP, ~14% in secured SME and
~20.5% in unsecured SME.
Credit underwriting decision is very much decentralized, considering the self employed
segment that the company primarily serves. Up to Rs2mn loan is approved by the branch
manager. This means ~90%-95% loan cases are dealt at the branch level only. The
company uses Assessed Income in case of home loans, given that the borrowers may
not have well established banking / financial trails to have a clean or well defined credit
history. In case of LAP, the company uses declared income only and no assessed or
proxy incomes.
The company has GNPA ratio of 1.6% in home loans and 0.95% in LAP.
In terms of sourcing, DSAs contribute ~45%, loan camps contribute ~30% and the rest is
sourced by branch and direct employees. DSA commission is at ~0.4% in home loans.
This appears lower than many HFCs but largely on account of portfolio concentration in
the metros. In LAP, 70% of the business is sourced through DSAs while the rest comes
from direct employee selling and cross-selling to Edelweiss group customers.
Home loan prepayment rates are ~1.75% per month, while the same for LAP is ~2%. The
interesting point here is that Edelweiss largely promotes fixed rate home loans and hence
makes fee income on prepayments. The fixed rate assets are matched by fixed rate
liabilities like NCDs.
Processing fee, insurance cross selling and prepayment penalty together contribute to fee
income.
The company expects to manage ~3% spread in home loans and ~2.5% in LAP.
Gruh Finance
Present in 11 states with 186 branches - however, 70% of the business accrues from the Mr. Suresh Iyer
states of Gujarat and Maharashtra GM (Operations)
Committed to continue growing the book organically at 25% (similar to the past run rates)
68% of the business is through vintage channel partners, with a solid understanding of
Gruh Finances risk appetite, which employ customized filters
Average ticket size is at Rs0.8mn-Rs0.9mn
Affordable housing is still largely noise since the supply side has not yet taken off
Greater developer and customer awareness of PMAY - CLSS is a key indicator
25% of aggregate CLSS subsidy claims with NHB are from Gruh Finance (9.5k claims out
of 40k claims)
Overall customer base at 197k - hence, 5% of existing stock of customers qualify for
CLSS claims
Structurally, with higher competitive intensity, spreads are expected to compress
HDFC Limited
Prepayment rates in HDFC customers largely in line with longer-term trends - balance
Mr. Conrad Dsouza, Member
transfers only in case of competitors offering excessive top-ups of Executive Management,
Competitive intensity from SBI is highest in Tier 2/3 centres largely on account of SBIs CIRO
distribution strength - this customer segment largely comprises of PSU employees /
Mr. Subodh Salunke, Senior
government employees with a preference for self-construction GM & Regional Business Head
Tier 2/3 centres do not witness resale too often - largely dominated by self-construction (Mumbai & Vidharba)
RERA will raise buyer confidence and instil developer discipline - registration of under-
construction properties will precede that of new launches
Risk of developer funding will reduce structurally (at least basis the Maharashtra RERA
blueprint) on account of ring-fencing of cash flows (70% escrow)
MIG CLSS - while 35% of HDFCs annual disbursements may qualify from a ticket-size
perspective, there are other binding conditions such as dual ownership that may limit this
proportion
RBI notification on lower risk weights was not overly significant - NHB may replicate these
across the board (across ticket sizes)
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