Suraya Property Group has secured Sh1.6 billion financing from four banks to complete mega housing projects, whose construction had fallen behind schedule due to the biting liquidity crisis that has hit the property sector as a result of interest rate capping.
The cash injection hands the company the much-needed lifeline to complete the projects.
Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) ,
Cooperative Bank ,
National Bank of Kenya (NBK)
Equity Bank
have refinanced the housing developer that targets middle and high-end buyers to enable it complete the projects the lenders had earlier financed.
The funding, Mr Muraya said, has been secured for its Lavington project dubbed Terraces at a total cost of Sh700 million from Diamond Trust Bank (DTB Bank). The proposed development has a total of 133 units consisting of four, three and two-bedroom apartments arranged around a court.
Its Ngong Road-based Lynx project comprising one and two-bedroom apartments has secured Sh600 million from the National Bank of Kenya, Mr Muraya said.
The developer’s phase two development dubbed Encasa along Mombasa Road behind Mlolongo has secured Sh130 million from Co-operative Bank of Kenya.
The project occupies a total of 12.5 acres and is proposed to have a total of 625 apartments.
He said its Lynx West project based in Nairobi West and comprising two bedroom en suite apartments has secured Sh40 million from DTB while its Fourways project along Kiambu Road has secured Sh130 million from Equity Bank.
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