Co-op Bank gets Sh550m loan to fund mortgages
The Co-operative Bank took a loan of Sh549.8 million from the Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) last year for onward lending to home buyers, disclosures by the lender’s majority shareholder show.
The KMRC is lending the money to the bank at an interest rate of five percent per annum, which will allow the institution to on-lend the same at single-digit rates to mortgage customers earning less than Sh150,000 per month.
The lender accounted for five percent of Kenya’s total outstanding mortgage loans as of the end of 2020, the latest Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) data shows. This amounted to 1,285 mortgage accounts, with loans worth Sh11.9 billion.
Co-op Bank’s subsidiary Kingdom Bank had also issued mortgages worth Sh1.19 billion at the end of the period, from 203 accounts.
There were a total of 26,971 mortgage loans in issue in Kenya by 2020, worth Sh232.7 billion.
The average home loan size stood at Sh8.6 million, with an average rate of 10.9 percent on the loans and a time to maturity of 11 years.
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