From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhome loanˌhome ˈloan noun [countable] informal an amount of money that you borrow in order to buy a home SYN mortgage
Examples from the Corpus
home loan• The level of provisions could begin to drop next year as fewer families fall behind in their home loan payments.• For a thrift manager to make a thirty-year home loan, he had to accept a rate of interest of 10 percent.From Longman Business Dictionaryhome loanˈhome loanFINANCEPROPERTYBANKING an amount of money that is lent to someone by a bank or BUILDING SOCIETY to allow them to buy a house. The house is used as SECURITY for the loanThe company has always specialized in making home loans. → loan 