₹24 Cr Lease Rental Discounting (LRD) Refinance Replacing a High-Cost LAP in Navi Mumbai
A commercial property owner in Navi Mumbai held an ₹18,000 sq ft Grade-A office floor leased to a listed IT/BPO tenant on a registered 9+3 year lease yielding ₹28.50 lakh gross monthly rent, but was servicing an expensive ₹17.50 crore NBFC LAP at 11.75% over 10 years.
Under the 10-year NBFC LAP at 11.75%, the monthly EMI was ₹24.86 lakh — consuming virtually 100% of the ₹25.05 lakh net monthly rent after 10% Section 194-I TDS and society maintenance.
The owner needed ₹6.00 crore of fresh capital to acquire an adjacent warehouse in Bhiwandi, but the NBFC refused top-up funding citing FOIR constraints on operating business ITRs.
The lease agreement had a 15% rent escalation every 36 months that the previous lender ignored when computing debt capacity.
2. How the file and cash-flow waterfall were structured
Transitioned the borrowing from an income-assessed LAP to a ring-fenced Lease Rental Discounting (LRD) structure with a public-sector bank at 9.10% p.a. over a 12-year tenor matched to the tenant's lease + renewal clause.
Factored the contracted 15% triennial rent escalations and deducted exact Section 194-I TDS (10%) and property tax outgoings to demonstrate a 1.28x net rental DSCR across the full tenor.
Executed a Tripartite Escrow Agreement routing tenant NEFT/RTGS rent directly into the LRD escrow account, unlocking ₹24.00 crore (64% LTV on ₹37.50 crore valuation) — paying off the ₹17.50 crore LAP and releasing ₹6.50 crore in net equity.
3. Before vs. after sanction comparison
Comparison of initial position vs. final sanctioned terms (BC-2026-03)
Credit Metric
Initial Position / Bottleneck
Structured Sanction
Sanctioned Loan Amount
₹17.50 Cr (Existing NBFC LAP)
₹24.00 Cr (PSU Bank LRD + ₹6.50 Cr Equity Release)
Interest Rate & Benchmark
11.75% p.a. (NBFC Floating)
9.10% p.a. (PSU Bank 1-Yr MCLR)
Repayment Tenor
10 Years (120 Months)
12 Years (144 Months, lease-aligned)
Monthly EMI vs Net Rent
₹24.86L EMI on ₹25.05L net rent
₹27.32L EMI with step-up rent (₹3.80L/mo surplus from Yr 2)
One-Time Maharashtra MODT Cost
Already sunk
₹7.36L total (₹7.20L Art. 6 duty + ₹15K NOI) recovered in 3 months