Every year in the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook, CAHF publishes data on the cheapest newly built house by a private developer in each country …
This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay to the 2022 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. Around the world, climate issues have been a …
A purchasing power parity (PPP) dollar is a notional currency that reflects the rate at which the currency of one country would have to be converted into that of another country to buy the same amount of goods and services in each country. It takes account of the prevailing inflation rates in each country. Because of the distortions that the use of prevailing market exchange rates can give rise to, the affordability calculations in 2021's Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook are converted into international purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars.
This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay[1] to the 2021 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. After a difficult year, African housing markets …
This blog originally appeared as the introductory essay to the 2020 edition of the Housing Finance in Africa Yearbook. 2020 will forever be remembered as …
The number of outstanding mortgages is one of the key indicators the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) uses to track the scale …
This article is drawn from our 10th anniversary Yearbook on Housing Finance in Africa, launched at the AUHF Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on …
The task of comparing housing affordability across different African countries is made more difficult because the cost of houses, and the incomes used to pay …
