Africa: Africa's Mortgage Market Is Transforming - Kwaku Gima has spent almost fifteen years building his family a house, and it's still not finished. The floor hasn't been plastered smooth and the kitchen cabinets are yet to be fitted. Last year the 47 year old high school teacher in Ghana got a mortgage from a co-operative society to build a home he expects to be complete within nine months. [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: Creating Wealth Through Housing Mortgage - Owning a house in Uganda is comparatively low largely due to the limited access to funding. Ugandans can however have their own house through getting a mortgage. [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: Mortgage Housing Deal Unveiled - Stanbic Bank and the National Housing Corporation have partnered to provide affordable mortgage loans for customers to acquire accommodation. [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: Housing Finance to List On the Bourse - HOUSING Finance Bank is to list onto the Uganda Securities Exchange by 2011, Nicholas Okwir, the managing director, has announced. [AA Construction]

Tanzania: Interest On House Loans to Fall - Govt - The Government is working on efforts to lower interest rates on housing loans to enable the people afford decent accommodation. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: 'Viable Mortgage System Vital for Nation Building' - Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Cross and Churchill Estates Limited, Mr. Taiwo Ogunbodede, in this exclusive interview with SENOR CORRESPONDENT, Dada Jackson, bares his mind on the rapid development along the Mowe/Ofada axis, mortgage financing, land titles, among other topical issues. [AA Urbanisation]

South Africa: Fnb Finds Mass Market for Mortgages 'Resilient' - THE mass market had shown resilience throughout the recession so far and non- performing loans at FNB's affordable housing unit were about half those of higher-income groups, said FNB's Smart Solutions CEO Linè Wiid. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Aso Savings Partners Saraki On Housing - Impressed by the success story of the Kwara State Government's Public-Private-Partnership efforts in Housing programme, an Abuja based mortgage firm, Aso Savings and Loans Plc, has offered to partner with Governor Bukola Saraki in providing affordable mass housing for the citizenry. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Mortgage Firm Partners Kwara on Housing - Impressed by the success story of the Kwara State Government's Public-Private-Partnership efforts in housing programme, an Abuja-based Mortgage firm, Aso Savings and Loans Plc, has offered to partner with the state government in providing affordable mass houses for citizens of the state. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Bank Provides Housing Finance - PROSPECTIVE home owners can now secure finance for construction of medium-density houses in two suburbs of Harare. [AA Construction]

Uganda: Public Servants to Get House Loans - PUBLIC servants are to get house loans under a government scheme starting this year, state minister Michael Werikhe has said. [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: Why Building Loans are Gaining Popularity - UGANDA currently has a housing deficit of more than 1.7 million units and the figure is rising annually in tandem with a high population growth rate. [AA Construction]

Zimbabwe: Hyperinflation Leaves Mortgage Loans Meaningless - CENTRAL African Building Society (CABS) mortgage loans during the financial year ending December 31 2008 were nothing in real terms as sellers sought foreign currency while the society could only lend in local currency. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Mortgage Business Has Bright Future - CABS - THE Central African Building Society (CABS) -- Zimbabwe's largest mortgage lender -- this week said the collapsed mortgage business that went through a difficult period last year was now looking up following the liberalisation of the country's economy. [AA Urbanisation]