Why the proposed 10pc roof on mortgage is still too high for Kenyan buyers

With an average home loan size at Sh10.9 million in 2017 repayable in nearly 12 years, very few Kenyans can afford to own a home through bank financing.

This is because one will need more than Sh100,000 monthly on average to service a mortgage even with the September 2016 legal ceilings on loan charges, which helped slash average interest rate for home loans to 13.57 per cent last year from 18.7 per cent a year earlier.

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