Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited Announces its Q2 FY 17-18 Financial Resul ts. Highest ever quarterly PAT of ₹ 861.1 Cr., up 26%.

Mumbai, October 25, 2017: The Board of Directors of Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd (IBHFL), India’s second largest housing finance company, announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30^th, 2017.

IBHFL’s Profit after Tax (PAT):

 For Q2 FY 18, dividend of ₹ 9/- per share has been declared.

 Key Financials:

OakNorth Bank raised USD 203 Mn of investment for a 16% stake at a valuation of USD 8.27 Bn. With this, IBHFL’s stake is now valued at USD 380 Mn multiplying our USD 100 Mn of investment 3.8x in under 2 years.

Strong growth in mid-income affordable housing on the back of PMAY subsidies

The government reiterated its support for affordable housing to mid-income (MIG) housing by extending the interest subsidy benefit under PMAY by a further 15 months, until March 2019.

Affordable housing sales and launches have shown very strong growth and during H1 CY 17, top 7 cities recorded more than 60% of total residential units supply in the affordable segment.

Propelled by the growth in the affordable housing segment, IBHFL’s home loan disbursals grew strongly YoY and stood at ₹ 5,718.3 Crs for Q2FY18, growing by 36.4% over the ₹ 4,191.5 Crs of home loans disbursed in Q2FY17.

Significant reduction in Gross and Net NPAs

NPAs have reduced significantly with Gross NPA dropping to its lowest level in over 20 quarters at 0.78% as compared to 0.83% in Q2 FY 17 and Net NPAs at 0.31% from 0.34% as at the end of Q2 FY17

Evolution of distribution model: eHome loans, Smart City Home loans and Analytics driven sourcing

Digitization of home loan sourcing and underwriting is driving a change in sourcing pattern. As we expand into smaller towns through smart city home loans, we will be optimally positioned to catch the next wave of growth in home loans off take. The competitive intensity is also much lesser and margins healthier. Digitization gives us the opportunity to expand into these tier II and tier III markets in a cost effective manner, with underwriting standards upheld but at healthier spreads.

The next evolution in home loans sourcing and distribution will be analytics driven. Increasing digitization and the information convergence driven by Aadhar makes a scoring model for home loan credit decisioning emminent. From the present 8 working hours that we need to approve salaried home loans, credit decisioning will be instantaneous for the applications decided by this model.

Big data analytics enables data gathering and analysis on an unprecedented scale. It will be possible to generate a base of prospective home buyers and even generate pre-approved home loan offers for these customers.

Since its inception in FY 17, IBHFL expanded presence into 59 new tier-II and III towns and cities for Smart City Home Loans – this has already begun contributing to 9% of incremental home loan disbursals.

Mr. Gagan Banga, Vice Chairman and MD, IBHFL commented that, “Technology is driving the evolution of our distribution model and by 2020 50% of our home loan sourcing will come from outside of the top 20 cities, which is now at 30%. Analytics driven sourcing and credit decisioning represent the next stage in this evolution and our strategy thrust is in this direction.”

Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)