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Liberia: Ambitious housing Plan -Govt. to Build housing Estates in 15 Counties
The Liberian Government has embarked upon an ambitious housing plan under which it will construct housing estates in all 15 political subdivisions of the country, officials disclosed in Monrovia [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Low Cost housing Gets U.S.12 Million Boost
Shelter Afrique a specialized company for habitat and housing in Africa will invest US12 million in housing targeting middle income [detalii...]
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Ghana: Govt Committed to Addressing housing Deficit- Bagbin
Mr. Alban Bagbin, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and housing, has reaffirmed the governments commitment to address the housing deficit and improve water delivery in the country, saying various housing and water projects were being undertaken by the ministry in collaboration with its agent throughout the [detalii...]
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Nigeria: National Assembly Impeding housing Development - Experts
Some experts on housing development have blamed the National Assembly for slowing down the growth of housing development in the country, by delaying the passage of some bills on housing pending before [detalii...]
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Namibia: housing Backlog Blamed On Slow Land Delivery
A LACK of suitable and available land has been cited by the National housing Enterprise (NHE) as the main challenge it faces in fulfilling its mandate to provide affordable housing to the Namibian [detalii...]
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Kenya: Ministry Now Reviewing housing Policies
The ministry of housing has embarked on reviewing the draft Landlords and Tenants Bill to reflect developments in the housing market. Soita Shitanda, the housing minister, on Friday said the bill is being re-drafted to reflect socio-economic developments that have rendered some policies [detalii...]
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Uganda: Iran Eyes Countrys housing Sector
Iran has joined the list of investors who are eyeing Ugandas booming housing industry. Iranian Vice President Rahim Mashael last week launched 4,000 housing units in Bwebajja, on Entebbe [detalii...]
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South Africa: Public Protector Visits Failed housing Projects
Apparent widespread housing problems within the Umgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal will form part of Public Protector Adv. Thuli Madonselas current systemic investigation into social [detalii...]
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South Africa: Zuma Hails New housing Projects
Governments new housing approach will go a long way in reversing the apartheid legacy in housing and social planning in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said at the [detalii...]
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Morocco: King Launches housing Projects
HM King Mohammed VI launched, on Friday in the urban commune of El-Aroui (province of Nador), works to carry out two social housing projects (MAD 250,000) to build 554 housing units, worth 155 million [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Fixing housing Deficit to Cost N60 Trillion
Minister of Lands, housing and Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple, has said government would require a minimum of N60 trillion to provide 17 million new housing units to address the current deficit in the [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Govt to Update National housing Database
GOVERNMENT will next year embark on a programme to update the national housing database as it emerged that the current national housing waiting backlog stands at two [detalii...]
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Nigeria: N60 Trillion Required for 17 Million housing Units - FG
Federal government said yesterday that N60 trillion is required to provide 17 million new housing units in the country. One unit of housing is estimated at N3.5 million and "this is beyond the capacity of the three tiers of government," the Minister of Lands, housing and Urban Development, Ms Amal Pepple said yesterday in [detalii...]
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South Africa: Speech Excerpts - Minister Madikizelas Remarks At Kwanokuthula housing Handover, Plettenberg Bay
Western Cape Human Settlements Minister Bonginkosi Madikizela delivered an address at the handover of government housing units in KwaNokuthula housing Project, Plettenburg [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Federal housing Authority Seeks N300 Billion Intervention Fund
The Federal housing Authority (FHA) has said it requires an intervention fund of N300 billion from the Federal Government for the mass production of affordable housing for low and middle income earners across the [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FG Suspends Managing Director of Federal housing Authority
The Federal Government has approved the suspension of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal housing Authority, Arc. Terver Gemade.Minister of Lands, housing and Urban Development, Hon. Nduese Essien, confirmed the suspension in a release signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Ibanga Isine in Abuja [detalii...]
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Kenya: New Technology to Cut housing Costs
Mortgage lender housing Finance is focussing on pre-fabricated technology which uses fibre for walling in order to reduce the cost of [detalii...]
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South Africa: Makhaza housing Project Protest Flares Up Again
FOLLOWING a week of protests earlier this month, the battle over housing between Makhaza backyarders and beneficiaries from the nearby K-Section boiled over again on [detalii...]
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Kenya: County Governments to Raise housing Demand
Private developers are happy with the creation of counties, saying the new administrative units will create more housing demand, especially in the middle and lower end of the [detalii...]
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Liberia: Govt. Gives housing Units to 1,000 Citizens
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has presented title deeds to more than 1,000 occupants of three low-cost housing estates on the outskirts of [detalii...]
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Kenya: Ex-Permanent Secretary Wants Improved housing for Citizens
Kenya lags behind in provision of housing for its citizens, former PS for Water Joseph Kibe has said. The chairman of Bahati Ridge in Thika called for a countryside drive to "build in yield" unveiling results that show that the country lags behind in housing. Bahati Ridge has devoted 95 acres to a new gated country community that will provide homes for more than 300 [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FG Woos Private Sector Over housing
The Minister of housing and Urban Development, Ama Pepple, has urged private investors to ensure that good, affordable and high quality houses are provided for [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Teachers to Get housing Loans
The teachers welfare body, Umwalimu SACCO, has declared its plans to avail housing loans to thousands of its members across the [detalii...]
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South Africa: Former Ward Councillor Charged With housing Fraud
Former Makhaza ANC ward councillor Thobile Ludidi has denied he illegally sold housing [detalii...]
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Namibia: Billions Needed for housing
Namibia has a housing backlog of 92 000 and it would require to double, if not triple, the N800 million that the State allocates for the provision of new houses each year if this backlog is to be [detalii...]
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Namibia: Low-Cost housing Scheme Probed
QUESTIONS have been raised about a low-cost housing project which has allegedly received a stamp of approval from politicians, banks and welfare [detalii...]
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Nigeria: housing Ministry Seeks Alternative to Cement
The Federal ministry of Lands, housing and Urban Development has said that it is seeking alternatives to cement owing to its high cost and effect on [detalii...]
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Tanzania: NHC Charts Plans for City housing Project
THE National housing Corporation (NHC) plans to construct residential buildings in the central business district as a strategy to ease traffic [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Interfin to Bankroll housing Scheme
A US250 million housing project, Beverley Hills Golf Estate, has been unveiled in Harares Borrowdale suburb, potentially unleashing vast opportunities in the countrys construction sector which had been guarded by a decade-long economic [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Country in U.S.500 Million housing Project
Construction of Vision City, a modern housing estate in Kigali City will start soon, a top Social Security Fund of Rwanda (SSFR) official has [detalii...]
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Tanzania: housing Key to Human Dignity
THE ongoing survey by the National housing Corporation (NHC) to ascertain the number of its units and verify its tenants is an extremely welcome move. There is nothing that lies at the heart of human dignity than decent [detalii...]
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Kenya: NSSFs housing Estate Feted for Best Practice
Kenyas single largest housing estate, Nyayo Estate, has been recognised for best practice as most clean neighbourhood in October [detalii...]
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Namibia: Barriers to Affordable housing Must Be Reviewed
Reviewing the current legislative and institutional framework relating to infrastructure development and the National housing Policy are amongst a number strategies required to address informal settlement in Namibia, says Local Government Minister, Jerry [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FG Pays housing Allowance for Ex-Militants
All registered ex-militants that have sucessfully passed through the non-violence and reformatory training, courtesy of the Amnesty Programme at the Obubra in Cross River State camp will be paid housing allowance by the federal [detalii...]
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Rwanda: DN International Launches Rwf 3.8 Billion housing Estate
DN International, a real estate company, has put on public sale its 50-unit housing estate, the Chief Executive Officer, Nathan Lloyds has [detalii...]
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Liberia: Christmas Present for Low-Cost housing Unit Tenants
More than a thousand occupants of three low-cost housing estates on the outskirts of Monrovia were on Thursday, December 23, presented property Title Deeds by President Ellen Johnson [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Low Cost housing Vital
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), jointly with a German firm, plans to construct low cost housing units with an estimated cost of Rwf 4.4 million per [detalii...]
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Kenya: housing Finance to Source Funds From Foreign Investors
Mortgage lender housing Finance has announced plans to tap international markets for long-term funds to finance fixed-rate home [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FMBN Calls for Integration of Informal Sector Into NHF
IF the goal of making housing for all by the year 2020 is to be realised, then the informal sector needs to be integrated into the National housing Fund (NHF), using cooperative [detalii...]
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Namibia: 6 000 NHE Clients Wait for Houses in Windhoek
THE National housing Enterprise says it has a waiting list of around 6 000 clients for the provision of housing in Windhoek [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FHA to Build 6,009 Homes at N68 Billion
The Federal housing Authority (FHA) has said it will build a total of 6,009 housing units in 10 states across the six geo-political zones under its public private partnership [detalii...]
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Rwanda: housing Body Encourages Citizens to Live in Apartments
The Rwanda housing Authority (RHA) has called upon Kigali residents and those in other cities across the country to live in apartments instead of bungalows, saying that this would enable government to easily consolidate the available [detalii...]
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Uganda: 60 Percent of Urban Dwellers Live in Slums, Says Government
About 60 per cent of urban population in the country is living in slums, a situation that puts government in a deficit of more than 700,000 decent housing units, the Ministry of Lands and housing has [detalii...]
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Nigeria: FMBN Should Pursue Social housing
Minister of Lands, housing and Urban Development, Ms. Ammal Pepple, has challenged the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) to explore ways of providing houses for the generality of Nigerians as a social [detalii...]
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Kenya: City Chief Defends Building of Modern Kiosks in Estates
The rapid development in the citys Eastlands area has been precipitated by housing demands, the City Council has said. This has been followed by a rapid growth in number of city residents and stagnation on developments of new housing units by the central [detalii...]
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Ghana: 2010 Population And housing Census On Course
As part of preparations for the forthcoming 2010 Population and housing Census (PHC), the Central and Western Regional Census Implementation Committees (RCIC) have been inaugurated over the the last [detalii...]
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Kenya: Middle Class Demand Draws Real Estate Barons
A housing developer plans to build a multi-million shilling residential estate in Athi River, accelerating the shift to the eastern part of Nairobi where demand for housing is high and land prices are considered relatively [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Presidency Approves housing Allowance for Registered Ex-Militants
Presidency has finally given approval for the payment of housing allowance to all registered ex-militants that have passed through the Amnesty non violence training programme in Obubra, Cross [detalii...]
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Uganda: National housing Projects Stall Over Libyan Sanctions
Some banks have declined to fund National housing and Construction Corporation projects over UN sanctions on all Libyan assets at the onset of civil strife in the North African [detalii...]
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Angola: Head of State Visits housing Complex in Bom Jesus Locality
The Angolan President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, visited on Saturday a housing complex in Bom Jesus locality in Luanda, where 2.248 houses will be [detalii...]
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Namibia: NHE Houses in High Demand At Coast
National housing Enterprise (NHE) conventional houses are in high demand especially in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay, the housing entity has [detalii...]
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Nigeria: As Cement Prices Return to Rooftops
The construction of roads, infrastructure and housing is reeling again under a vicious resurgence of cement prices. Reports have it that in many parts of the country, especially the Lagos metropolis, where development of housing projects is proceeding at a frenetic pace, a bag of cement now goes for as a high as N2,800 per [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: City housing Auctions 1,232 Commercial Units
The Addis Abeba City housing Development Project Office is to transfer 1,232 business units on the ground floors of condominium blocks at five sites to buyers through an auction it held between June 3 and June 25, [detalii...]
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Kenya: North Rift Hub in Need of More Rental Houses
With a fast growing population of close to a million residents, housing is now a major concern in Eldoret, North Rifts business hub, whose economy is fueled by agriculture. This has renewed investor interest in residential housing in the town and its environs, breathing in new hope of revival for the regions property [detalii...]
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Tanzania: Local housing Corporation Gives Rent Defaulters Two-Month Ultimatum
The Tanzanian National housing Corporation (NHC) has issued a two-month ultimatum to tenants owing the corporation rent arrears to pay the [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Fashola Charges Govt to Prioritise PHMI Act
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state has urged federal government to as a matter of urgency priortise the Primary housing Mortgage Institution (PHMI) Act towards amending it with a law that would guarantee the needed capital that will fund mass housing initiatives in the [detalii...]
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South Africa: MEC Mmemezi to Lead Sod Turning Event to Mark the Construction of New Mixed housing Development in Westonaria
Residents of Bekkersdal and Zenzele informal settlements who have been living on unsafe dolomitic land, will sigh with relief now that theyll be relocated to another ambitious Mixed Income housing Development called Westonaria [detalii...]
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Kenya: KCB in Mortgage Financing Deal With Tanzania Company
Kenya Commercial Bank has signed a mortgage financing deal with Tanzanias National housing Corporation, giving it a strategic entry into Tanzanias housing [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Icpc Probes N48.3 Billion housing Fund Scam
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) yesterday said it has reviewed the activities of the National housing Fund (NHF) within the period when N34.8billion was received and N13.5billion generated as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), making a total of [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Govt Has a housing Backlog of 1 Million
Zimbabwe has an urban housing backlog of one million, a Parliamentary report has said. The estimated backlog is contained in the latest report of the Parliamentary Committee on Women, Youths, and Gender and Community [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Ekiti Council to Build N218 Million housing Estate
THE authorities of the Ikere Local Government has embarked on N218 million to construct affordable housing Units for its staff and other interested indigenes as part of the ways of reducing undue population pressure on Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital and shore up Public-Private partnership in the [detalii...]
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Tanzania: KCB Signs Sh54 Billion Deal With Tanzania Mortgage Financier
KCB has signed multi-billion shilling mortgage projects with Tanzanias state housing company, marking a formal entry into the countrys homes market.The lender said on Wednesday it will spend Sh54 billion (KSh3 billion) on three real estate developments in a partnership with the National housing Corporation (NHCTZ), which owns most of Tanzanias prime [detalii...]
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South Africa: Municipalities Should Deal Decisively With Illegal Occupation of Low Cost housing - MEC Mohono
Municipalities need to take steps to prevent and curb illegal occupation of low cost housing in their areas of jurisdiction and not expect the provincial department to deal with the phenomenon, North West MEC for Human Settlements, Public Safety & Liaison, Ms Desbo Mohono asserted on [detalii...]
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South Africa: Community Development Workers Challenged to Report Fraud and Corruption at Grass Root Level
Fraud and corruption are worrying factors and mostly plays a huge role in depriving communities to access what is legible for them, Community Development Workers (CDWs) were told on the second day of the housing Consumer Education Workshop. The empowerment sessions that included CDWs and housing officials from Moretele Local Municipality ends today, Friday, 5 August [detalii...]
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Tanzania: Rules Set to Outlaw Annual House Rent
Landlords in Dar es Salaam and other towns around the country may soon be barred from demanding a years rent from tenants if the proposed guidelines in a new national housing policy are endorsed.The long-running tradition, which forces tenants to either borrow or deny themselves to stringently save in order to raise 12 months rent, is one of the toughest challenges, especially for newly employed people, who can hardly accumulate the money to pay up. And working to the landlords advantage is the acute housing shortage in the urban [detalii...]
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Kenya: Low Cost housing Units to Be Constructed - Prime Minster
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said the government will construct modern low cost housing units in urban areas. The PM said the project will be executed under the Slum Upgrading Programme in which the government has partnered with the UN Habitat. The target areas include Kangemi, Kariobangi, Githurai and Kawangware. "The project is on course because we have the money. We are waiting for the conclusion of the case before we roll out," he [detalii...]
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Sudan: Governance and Administration Sector Affirms Necessity of Using Population and housing Census Data
The Governance and Administration Sector has reviewed in its regular meeting Thursday under the chairmanship of the Minister of the Presidency, Lt. Gen. ,Bakri Hassan Salih , with the participation of the Heads of the ministerial sectors the summary of the working papers of the 5th conference of the population and housing census which presented by the Director- General of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yasin Al Haj Abidin.The sector affirmed necessity of benefitting from the census data in the second fifth plan of the strategic planning and the indicators of production for the year 2011,and so to speed up the dissemination of the outputs of the 5th conference of the population and housing census in addition of training the employees on usage of Sudan Info program in coordination with the bodies that are making statistics surveys in order to benefit from their data in the project of the National Information [detalii...]
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South Africa: MEC Madikizela Makes Statement At the Affordable housing Development, Human Settlement And Finance Summit
In order to deliver on the Western Cape Human Settlements mandate of creating integrated and sustainable human settlements, the future of housing will include a greater number of people contributing financially towards their houses and the government enabling more people to buy houses. The culture of dependency the government is creating where people get houses for free is dangerous, as it is not a model that can economically support our [detalii...]
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Sudan: First Real Estates Forum to Commence Mid September
The first real estates forum will begin sessions in mid September with the participation of a number of ministries, the housing Fund, the housing companies and the real estates agencies at Ard Al-Mared (exhibitions land) at BurriThe forum will discuss the challenges that face the physical developments in the country and the obstacles that impede the progress of the physical development. The forum will be attended by experts, specialists and workers in the field of real estate from Sudan and [detalii...]
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Kenya: housing Finance Half Year Profit Hits Sh345 Million
Mortgage firm housing Finance has announced a 67 per cent growth in 2011 first half profits before tax to Sh345 million. The firm reported Sh205 million in pre-tax profits over the same period last year and said the improved earnings this year resulted from a steady growth in mortgage [detalii...]
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Kenya: The Culprits Behind the Death of Physical Planning and Beauty
Nairobis Zimmerman housing estate appears beautiful and [detalii...]
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Ghana: Have You Been Counted?
The on-going 2010 Population and housing Census seems to have taken off with a limp, judging from the myriad of problems that have bedeviled it, even at this early stage of the counting [detalii...]
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Uganda: High Prices Behind the housing Deficit
Between July and September every year, Tom Odaak, the director of Excel Estates, has a reason to [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Another Ministers Office Burnt
The Ministry of Works, housing and Infrastructural Development at New Englandville in Freetown was yesterday engulfed in [detalii...]
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Namibia: National Census to Begin Shortly
THE 2011 Population and housing Census will take place across the country from August 28 to September [detalii...]
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Tanzania: NHC Embarks on Major Facelift
If you are living or operating a business in a National housing building recently painted pink, you are advised to start looking for alternative [detalii...]
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Uganda: Mortgage Sector Attracts More Banks
STANBIC Bank has partnered with real estate agencies to enable more Ugandans build houses as the housing deficit soars with the population [detalii...]
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Nigeria: More Citizens Now Live in Slums - Experts
Lack of effective planning and programme in the housing sector have turned many Nigerian cities into slums, according to Inemesit [detalii...]
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Kenya: Beware of Loopholes That Can Hold Up housing Projects
Many large-scale real estate projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars are stalling because of [detalii...]
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Kenya: housing Plan Unveiled for Slum Dwellers
Two thousand slum families in Nairobi are expected to move into their new modern houses for which they will pay just Sh10 daily for five [detalii...]
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Uganda: Ubos Starts Mock Census
THE Government is conducting a pilot population and housing census in preparation for the national census next [detalii...]
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South Africa: Africas housing Crisis - Conference Outlines Remedies
Despite having 3% of the population earning an income viable for mortgage and 10.8% earning between US10-20 per day, the UN Habitat says about 40.3% of Africans still live in [detalii...]
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Namibia: Some 92 000 Citizens Roofless - Ekandjo
THE National housing Enterprise (NHE) will need about N500 million a year to meet its Vision 2030 target of delivering 1 200 houses a [detalii...]
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Kenya: Census Wins Global Recognition
Kenya has become the first African country to be honoured for implementing a population and housing [detalii...]
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Namibia: Census Officials Want Payment
NEW questions have been raised over the payment of enumerators in the 2011 housing and Population [detalii...]
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Namibia: More Settlements Coming
THE Ministry of Local Government, housing and Rural Development is in the process of upgrading the status of settlements to that of local [detalii...]
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Congo-Kinshasa: Africa Remembers Lumumba, Bright Spark in a Land of Despair
The town in which I grew up has three important marks in his memory: A dispensary, a road and a housing estate named after Patrice [detalii...]
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Namibia: NHE Paid Architect Almost N1 Million
The CEO of the National housing Enterprise (NHE), Vinson Hailulu believes former Oshakati Mayor Ben Kathindi is dogged by personal and professional [detalii...]
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Kenya: Varsities Turn to Private Firms to Fill housing Gap
Pushed to the wall by limited funds to run their institutions, universities are now turning to private developers to supplement their development [detalii...]
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Kenya: Land Enquiry Should Target Local Councils
Reactions have been mixed and varied to the demolition of extensive housing developments the government says are on land that belongs to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in [detalii...]
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housing row casts cloud over Derby week
The Hatchfield farm plan has prompted a vicious row between Lord Derby and Newmarket [detalii...]
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Kenya: Gatabaki Wife Files Sh1 Billion Suit
A woman yesterday took a developer to court over a housing project worth more than Sh1 [detalii...]
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Tanzania: NHC to Sell Houses in Arusha
NATIONAL housing Corporation (NHC) has invited Tanzanians to participate in bidding and purchase of its apartments in [detalii...]
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Uganda: Elgon Residents Tipped On housing
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned people living on the mudslide-prone slopes of Mt. Elgon against building houses within 500 meters (1/2km) from the mountain [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Rubavu housing Project Delayed
The deadline for the eradication of thatched houses in Rubavu District passed without work being completed due to lack of enough iron sheets and other building materials, local leaders [detalii...]
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Botswana: Mogae Joins Rawlings in House Woes
Former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings is not the only retired African head of state having sleepless nights over housing [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Ikoyi Club 1938 for Demolition
This news should not in any way be twisted out of context as there is no clandestine motive to convert one of the countrys elite golf courses into a luxury housing complex to cater for growing accommodation needs of people in [detalii...]
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Zambia: State to Quote Census for MDGs
SECRETARY to the Treasury Fredson Yamba has said the 2010 census of population and housing should be appropriately refined in order for the country to form a proper baseline data for national [detalii...]
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South Africa: Hawks Look Into RDP housing Fraud
At least 45 cases of fraud involving state-subsidised houses in Du Noon have been opened with the Hawks following community meetings called by the investigations [detalii...]
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Angola: Population Census to Take Place in 2013
The intention of holding housing and general people census throughout national territory in 2013 was approved Friday by the Executive, after being analysed by the Council of [detalii...]