Home First Finance Home Loan Interest Rate — 16th September 2026
Housing finance company
Home First Finance’s home loan interest rate runs from 8.00% to 17.50%, according to its own rate page, read on 16 September 2026. Here is the full card, a plain-English reading of it, and the EMI those rates produce on the loan sizes people actually borrow.
Starting rate
8.00%
Top of published range
17.50%
Benchmark
PLR 17.00%
Effective from
Not published
Read from Home First Finance’s own website on 16 September 2026. Source and method
Home First Finance home loan interest rate card
Home loan rate range
| Product | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Home Loan (floating) | 8.00% | 17.50% |
| Home Loan top-up | Depends on your existing home loan | — |
Home First publishes one range for home loans, with no grid by score, income or loan size.
What Home First Finance’s interest rate card tells you
Home First Finance publishes the widest card range of any lender we track: 8.00% to 17.50%. A 9.50% spread means the floor says very little on its own, and the card doesn’t say what earns it. Its benchmark PLR is 17.00%, updated on 1 January 2026, so the bottom of the range sits far below Home First’s own reference rate. If you’re offered a rate in the teens, test a bank or a larger housing finance company first; on ₹20 lakh over 20 years, the two ends of the range are ₹13,370 a month apart.
Ranked by published starting rate, Home First Finance comes joint 27th of 48 — joint 5th within the 18 housing finance companies we track. Home First Finance doesn’t price off the RBI repo rate directly: its rates move with its own PLR, so a repo cut reaches its borrowers only if Home First Finance chooses to pass it on. For scale, its starting rate is 2.75 points above the repo rate of 5.25%. Between the bottom and top of Home First Finance’s published range, the EMI on ₹50 lakh over 20 years moves by ₹33,425 a month — which is why the band you land in matters more than the headline.
EMI at Home First Finance’s home loan interest rate
Monthly EMI at Home First Finance’s starting rate of 8.00%. These are the best case — if you’re quoted above the floor, your EMI will be higher.
| Loan amount | 10 years | 15 years | 20 years | 25 years | 20 yrs at 17.50% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ₹30 lakh | ₹36,398 | ₹28,670 | ₹25,093 | ₹23,154 | ₹45,148 |
| ₹50 lakh | ₹60,664 | ₹47,783 | ₹41,822 | ₹38,591 | ₹75,247 |
| ₹75 lakh | ₹90,996 | ₹71,674 | ₹62,733 | ₹57,886 | ₹1,12,871 |
| ₹1 crore | ₹1,21,328 | ₹95,565 | ₹83,644 | ₹77,182 | ₹1,50,494 |
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Home First Finance against lenders priced nearby
The four lenders whose published starting rates sit closest to Home First Finance’s, with the EMI each floor produces on ₹50 lakh over 20 years.
| Lender | Published rate | EMI, ₹50 lakh / 20 yrs | vs Home First Finance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Chartered Foreign bank | 7.99% onwards | ₹41,791 | −₹31/mo |
| Home First Finance Housing finance company | 8.00% – 17.50% | ₹41,822 | — |
| Tata Capital Housing finance company | 8.00% – 13.00% | ₹41,822 | same |
| Axis Bank Private sector bank | 8.00% – 9.10% | ₹41,822 | same |
| IndusInd Bank Private sector bank | 8.00% – 15.00% | ₹41,822 | same |
How to land near the bottom of Home First Finance’s range
- Home First’s own benchmark is 17.00%, so a quote below it isn’t automatically a good one. Measure it against the 8.00% floor and against a bank’s written offer instead.
- Get a written competing offer before you negotiate. On a wide range, a concrete alternative is worth more than any argument about your profile.
- If you already bank with the lender, say so. An account the lender can see removes much of the income checking and gives you something to negotiate from.
Home First Finance home loan fees and charges
| Processing fee | Home First doesn’t use the term processing fee. It charges a non-refundable ₹2,500 login fee plus GST, and a further fee that depends on loan size and loan type, set out in its fee grid. |
|---|---|
| Prepayment and foreclosure | None, for part or full prepayment. |
| Valuation (legal and technical) | Up to ₹10,000 |
| Switching between fixed and floating | 2% of the outstanding |
| Late EMI | 2% a month on the overdue amount |
We couldn’t match the grid’s columns to loan types with enough confidence to quote a figure for a home purchase. Ask Home First for the exact amount on your loan.
Source: Home First Finance’s own schedule of charges, read on 16 September 2026: https://homefirstindia.com/policy/schedule-of-charges
Who can get a Home First Finance home loan
| Who can apply | Salaried borrowers, including those paid in cash; self-employed borrowers, with documented income not mandatory; NRIs with an Indian address. |
|---|---|
| Longest term | 25 years |
Source: Home First Finance’s home loan page, read on 16 September 2026. Meeting these criteria doesn’t guarantee approval. https://homefirstindia.com/faqs
Home First Finance home loan interest rate — common questions
What is the current Home First Finance home loan interest rate?
What is Home First Finance’s home loan processing fee?
What is the maximum tenure of a Home First Finance home loan?
What decides where I fall in Home First Finance’s 8.00%–17.50% range?
What is the EMI on a ₹50 lakh home loan from Home First Finance?
Is Home First Finance’s home loan interest rate fixed or floating?
How does Home First Finance compare with Tata Capital?
Where these figures come from
Source: Home First Finance’s own interest rate page, read by BankCreds on 16 September 2026: https://homefirstindia.com/policy/schedule-of-charges
Home First Finance publishes no effective date for this rate, so we don’t show one.
We began recording Home First Finance’s home loan rates on 16 September 2026, and any change will be logged against that date as we detect it. Fees and eligibility come from Home First Finance’s own schedule of charges and home loan pages, with the full address printed in those sections — never from third-party sites.
Rates are what Home First Finance publishes, not an offer: the rate you’re quoted is set by Home First Finance after it assesses your application. How we collect and check rates →