Bajaj Housing Finance IPO fully booked hours after opening for subscription

New Delhi: The Rs 6,560-crore initial public offer of Bajaj Housing Finance got fully subscribed within hours of opening for bidding on Monday.

The initial share sale received bids for 73,02,58,736 shares against 72,75,75,756 shares on offer, reflecting a one-time subscription, as per NSE data till 14:03 hours.

The portion meant for non-institutional investors fetched 2.29 times the subscription while the quota for Retail Individual Investors (RIIs) got subscribed at 97 per cent. The category for Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) received a 2 per cent subscription.

Bajaj Housing Finance on Friday said it has collected Rs 1,758 crore from anchor investors.

The initial share sale will conclude on September 11.

The price band for the offer has been fixed at Rs 66-70 per share.

The IPO has a fresh issue of equity shares of up to Rs 3,560 crore and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of equity shares to the tune of Rs 3,000 crore by parent Bajaj Finance.

The share sale is being conducted to comply with the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) regulations, which require upper-layer non-banking finance companies to be listed on stock exchanges by September 2025.

Proceeds from the fresh issue will be used to augment the company's capital base to meet future capital requirements.

Bajaj Housing Finance is a non-deposit-taking housing finance company registered with the National Housing Bank since September 2015. It offers financial solutions for purchasing and renovating residential and commercial properties.

It has been identified and categorised as an "upper layer" NBFC by the RBI in India and its comprehensive mortgage products include home loans, loans against property, lease rental discounting and developer financing.

Aadhar Housing Finance and India Shelter Finance are two housing finance companies that have been listed on the stock exchanges in recent months.

Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Ltd, BofA Securities India Ltd, SBI Capital Markets Ltd, Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Ltd, Axis Capital and JM Financial Ltd are the book-running lead managers that will manage the company's public issue.