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Yes, in genuine circumstances. If you own a house in one city on which you pay a home loan, and rent accommodation in another city where you work, you can claim HRA on the rent and Section 24(b) on the loan. You can also claim both in the same city if the owned property is genuinely let out or is too far from your workplace to be reasonable. The claim must reflect reality — assessing officers do query this.

From the financial year in which construction is completed and you take possession. Interest paid during the construction period is not lost — it is aggregated and claimed in five equal instalments starting from the year of completion, within the same ₹2 lakh annual cap. If construction is not completed within five years of the loan being taken, the Section 24(b) cap on a self-occupied property drops to ₹30,000.

Effectively, yes. Where both applicants are co-owners of the property and both contribute to repayment from their own income, each may separately claim up to ₹2 lakh under 24(b) and ₹1.5 lakh under 80C. Both conditions matter. Being a co-applicant on the loan without being a co-owner of the property does not qualify you for the deduction.

For a self-occupied property, the new regime removes the 24(b), 80C and 80EEA deductions entirely, so the loan gives no tax relief. But the new regime has lower slab rates and a higher standard deduction. Whether you are better off depends on your total deductions across everything, not just the home loan. Compute your full liability under both before choosing.

It allows an additional ₹1.5 lakh interest deduction above the 24(b) cap for first-time buyers. Conditions include a stamp duty value not exceeding ₹45 lakh, the loan being sanctioned within the eligible window, and the buyer not owning any other residential property on the sanction date. The sanction window has closed for new loans, but borrowers who qualified when their loan was sanctioned may continue claiming for the life of that loan. Check your sanction date.

Yes, under Section 80C, but only in the financial year in which they are actually paid, and within the same shared ₹1.5 lakh limit. Since stamp duty on a substantial purchase often exceeds ₹1.5 lakh on its own, this typically consumes your entire 80C allowance in the year of purchase.