Law on apartment ownership shifts mortgage clearance

Lands CS Farida Karoney

Ministry of Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney. PHOTO | NMG

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Financial institutions like commercial banks will be required to immediately give up the full rights to individual apartment buyers when they finish paying up their mortgages or loans under new regulations aimed at boosting home ownership.

This is opposed to the past where buyers purchasing property on loan under a mortgage scheme could only get a partial discharge from a financial institution upon completion of payment of the loan.

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