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SBM Bank Kenya has partnered with developer Fusion Estates to offer homebuyers mortgage financing of up to 90 per cent of property value, aiming to cut the upfront deposit for buyers in Kenya and the diaspora.
Government-subsidised RDP houses can be inherited securely only where a registered title deed proves ownership and a valid will names the heir, and more than 1.2 million South African households still lack a title deed, according to Human Settlements Minister Thembisile Simelane.
Cape Town has released the nearly 72-hectare Annandale Farm site along the N7, valued at about R256 million, for affordable housing through public-private partnerships, but Dunoon residents who waited decades for homes say the plans are unlikely to serve them.
Ghana's Goldsyn Group has launched City Vallanza, a 46-villa residential development along Liberation Road in the Airport precinct, with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2028.
A Development Action Group analyst writes that South Africa's competing definitions of affordable housing produce very different pictures of who is served, as Cape Town brings 1,000 homes to Granger Bay.
The Kano State Government plans to build 5,000 houses under its Gida-Gida Mega City programme at Rijiyar Gwan-Gwan, with the wider housing and infrastructure package put at more than N150 billion and delivery projected within eight to 24 months.
The median age of residential property buyers in Botswana has risen to 46 years, the highest since 2021, as expensive mortgages, elevated land and construction costs and weak household incomes push homeownership further beyond the reach of younger Batswana.
A 42-year-old man and his 11-year-old son died when a wall belonging to a logistics firm collapsed onto their house in Kambodia, Jomvu, on the outskirts of Mombasa, early on Monday.
Housing experts have called on Lagos to convert abandoned and underutilised public buildings into affordable homes, arguing that government should maximise existing assets before committing scarce resources to new estates.