Comfortably available without collateral, but this is the amount at which a lender first asks whether you have any. How you answer decides your rate — and CGTMSE is usually a better answer than your property.
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This amount is comfortably available without collateral. It is also the point at which a lender first asks whether you have any — and how you answer moves your rate more than anything else in the file.
Ask for all three quotes. Most applicants ask for one, take it, and never learn what the other two would have cost.
Plain unsecured. Fastest, nothing pledged, highest rate. Right when speed matters and the tenure is short.
CGTMSE-backed. Still collateral-free, but the guarantee reduces the lender's risk so pricing improves. There is an annual guarantee fee, usually passed to you, so compare the all-in cost rather than the headline rate. For a business with no property this is very often the best available answer, and it is the one branches least often volunteer. See CGTMSE.
Secured against property. Cheapest by a clear margin, longest tenure, and slowest — valuation, title search and legal opinion take weeks. It also converts a business risk into a family one, which is a decision worth taking deliberately rather than because it was offered.
₹24 lakh and ₹26 lakh can follow different paths
Lenders set internal thresholds around round numbers, and crossing one can move a file from a fast unsecured process into a security discussion, a valuation and several extra weeks. If your genuine requirement sits just above a threshold and the smaller figure will do the job, the smaller figure usually reaches your account sooner and costs less to arrange. Worth asking your lender where their line sits before naming an amount.
A ₹25 lakh requirement is often really two: say ₹15 lakh for a machine and ₹10 lakh for stock. Financed as one unsecured term loan, you pay unsecured pricing on the whole amount and interest on the stock portion every day of the year.
Split it — equipment finance for the machine, secured by the machine itself, and a working capital limit for the stock — and both halves are priced correctly. This is one of the more reliable ways to reduce the cost of a mid-sized requirement.
Q1. Can I get ₹25 lakh without collateral?
Yes, from banks and NBFCs on a strong file, and through a CGTMSE-backed facility which is collateral-free by design. Property is not required at this level.
Q2. What turnover do I need?
Around ₹1 crore is typical, but declared profit decides the amount. A ₹3 crore business declaring very little will be offered less than a ₹1 crore business with real declared income.
Q3. Is CGTMSE cheaper than an ordinary unsecured loan?
Usually, once the rate reduction is set against the guarantee fee — but not always. Ask for both quotes with the fee shown as a separate line and compare in rupees over the tenure.
Q4. How long does ₹25 lakh take?
One to two weeks unsecured or CGTMSE-backed. Three to six weeks if secured against property, because valuation and legal work cannot be compressed.
Q5. Should I offer property to get a better rate?
Only deliberately. The rate saving is real, but so is the consequence — an unsecured loan that goes wrong is a credit problem, a secured one is a property problem. Borrow secured for things that build the business, not to cover a short-term gap.
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