Housing Finance Agencies in India

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations. 1. Housing finance: an introduction. 2. Profile of housing finance industry in India. 3. Financial appraisal. 4. Operational appraisal. 5. Organisational appraisal. 6. Emerging issues. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

"Housing finance system in the country represents a few players like government and its housing agencies, General financial institutions, insurance sector, banks and specialized housing finance companies, cooperative housing societies and employers in public and private sector extending housing finance and staff quarter facilities to their employees. In addition there is a large informal sector, which meets over two-third of the housing finance in the country.

 The present book raises many questions on the various aspects of Housing finance related issues specially in financial aspects, operational aspects, organisational aspects. The author has also tried to suggest possible solutions of related issues. Housing finance is very wide area and lot of efforts and work is required to touch each and every aspect of this sector. This book will be of great use to various esteemed readers--students, teachers, research scholars, financial managers and policy-makers." (jacket)