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CIH Bank has integrated a Yakeey-built property search platform into its mobile app, letting Moroccan clients find a verified listing, estimate its value and open a mortgage request in a single digital journey.
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria approved more than N208 billion in housing and mortgage loans in 2025 and disbursed over N120 billion, its managing director said at the World Habitat Day commemoration in Abuja.
Families removed from Protea Village in Bishopscourt under the Group Areas Act returned to the area to report on the redevelopment of land won back through restitution, where roads and streetlights are in place but homes are still to be built.
Moladi founder Hennie Botes wants South Africa's housing crisis to become an engine for local business, using reusable plastic formwork and a stokvel-inspired model that trains residents to build their own homes.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah personally funded two homes built with prefabricated panels and handed them over in Windhoek, framing the N$400,000 outlay as a test of whether the technology can be scaled against a 500,000-unit housing deficit.
President William Ruto has asked Kenyans to stop carving agricultural land into residential plots, arguing that affordable housing estates should absorb new households while farmland is kept for food production.
The Patriotic Alliance has put municipal bills at the centre of its election pitch, promising a three-month property rates holiday for qualifying homes, transfers of council houses to long-standing tenants and protection of municipal land for affordable housing.
Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo says structural works at the Kimumu AMS project in Eldoret are substantially complete, with the scheme to offer social, affordable and market-rate homes plus shops and recreational facilities.
More than 208 shacks were destroyed in a fire at Masinenge informal settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, where the province is building 882 permanent houses and has already moved 586 residents into new homes.