On the heels of SBI and ICICI Bank, the largest lenders in the country, announcing a cut in their floating home loan rates, IDBI Bank too has reduced its flexible rates on housing loan by 0.50 per cent to 10.50 per cent. While State Bank of India had cut interest rates on home, auto and personal loans by 0.5 to 1 per cent, ICICI Bank have reduced its rates by 0.25-0.50 per cent on home, car and personal loans. In September, HDFC too cut its rates on floating home loans by 0.5 per cent. Bank of Baroda and Axis Bank too pared their rates. The reduction in home loan rates by leading banks comes at a time when overall credit growth has slowed down to no more than 24 per cent for April-September period compared to 31 per cent in the corresponding period last fiscal. It is believed that degrowth in lending is due RBI's unleashing a harder interest regime as a part of its measures to tighten the liquidity situation in the country. The housing loan rate has moved up from about 3 per cen...