Commercializing Housing Support Services Through Housing Microfinance

(A case study of Microhousing Africa Limited)

Sustainable Housing Microfinance Conference in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turning Loans into Homes, Nairobi – Kenya.

April 12 – 15, 2010.

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Introduction

• Name of Company - Microhousing Africa Ltd

• Purpose - Housing

Microfinance• Target Market - Low - Middle

Income• Business Model - Up to 2-year

Loan • Interest Rate - 36% p.a.

Partners

• Roland Igbinoba Real Foundation for Housing and Urban Development

• Pison Housing Company

• Select Africa

Microhousing Africa Ltd

(Institution’s Operational Strategy)

1ST Year Operations

• Total Lending Amount - $11.8 million• Client Base - 1,900 clients• Target Market - Police and

Civil Servants• Average Loan Amount - Up to $6,250• Payback Period - Up to 2 years (Incremental

loan)

MHA Products & Services

• Land Acquisition• Land Titling• Home Building• Home Improvements

MHA Sector Development Services – Grant Funded/Pro-

bono• Advocacy and Lobbying • Popularize the concept • Consumer Training & Education• Develop the micro-industry• Encourage community and cooperative

programs

Building Supply Strategy

• Consumer Building;o This applies to MHA’s clients that will be

involved in the building process of their house (i.e. they will develop their house).

• Wholesale Buildingo Most of our clients will need the assistance of a

developer to build their house either individually or through their Co-operatives.

Repayment Risks/Collections

• Start granting Loans from the very conservative and less risky clients before moving down to the risky ones

• Deductions will be from source and will be paid monthly

• We will be dealing with Civil servants and government agency workers entirely in the first year.

Security

• For all our home building loans we will ensure to take collateral which will be the landed property the loan is acquired for or upon which the incremental building is being developed.

MHA Loan Process

Example:

• Customer seeks loan for the purpose of home building;

• Total loan needed as home developmental cost for example $26,666;

• Loan will usually be spread over 4 phases of 2years per phase with an average loan size of $6,250.

MHA Loan Process (Cont’d)Phase 1 (Example)

• This can entail buying and titling the land at a cost of US$4,333;

• The loan will be paid monthly over a 2-year period at an interest rate of 36% p.a.;

• Only after phase 1 loan has been paid will the phase 2 loan be disbursed;

• This minimizes risks against defaulters…

Phase 2

• This next stage could include foundation and partial framing at a cost of US$6,600;

• The Loan will be given to an accredited third party developer on behalf of the home owner;

• MHA will accredit the third party developer as part of its technical assistance programme for the home owner;

• At the end of the 2nd year the home owner has an option to refinance his/her loan;

Cont’d• This form of incremental building is more

affordable to the customer than a one-off loan;

• It also helps the institution and the customer reduce losses due to default;

• Find in the next 2 pages a comparison between an Incremental loan and a One-off loan;

• This comparison was developed by Select Africa Limited, South Africa

                 

  Interest Rate    To determine the Interest Rate, complete yellow blocks       PV 5,000,000    FV 0 Always 0 for a loan    Period 120 In months    Installment 86,899 Monthly Installment 150       1.42% Rate per Month    17.00% Rate per Year       18.39% Effective Interest Rate                   

                   Installment    To determine the Instalment Rate, complete yellow blocks       PV 5,000,000    FV 0 Always 0 for a loan    Period 120 in months    Rate 17.00% Yearly Simple Interest Rate       86,899                   

TOTAL COST OF LOAN 5,427,859

TERM LOAN VALUE INTEREST TOTALLOAN 1 120 months 5,000,000 5,427,859 10,427,859

10 years

                          

                   Interest Rate    To determine the Interest Rate, complete yellow blocks       PV 1,000,000    FV 0 Always 0 for a loan    Period 24 in months    Installment 59,047 Monthly Installment 150       3.00% Rate per Month    36.00% Rate per Year       42.58% Effective Interest Rate                   

                   Installment    To determine the Instalment Rate, complete yellow blocks       PV 1,000,000    FV 0 Always 0 for a loan    Period 24 in months    Rate 36.00% Yearly Simple Interest Rate       59,047                   

TOTAL COST OF LOAN 417,138 TERM LOAN VALUE INTEREST TOTAL

LOAN 1 24/24 1,000,000 417,138 1,417,138 LOAN 2 24/48 1,000,000 417,138 1,417,138 LOAN 3 24/72 1,000,000 417,138 1,417,138 LOAN 4 24/96 1,000,000 417,138 1,417,138 LOAN 5 24/120 1,000,000 417,138 1,417,138

10 years 5,000,000 2,213,508   7,213,508

Microhousing Africa Ltd

(Finance and Support Services)

Financial & Technical support

• Majority of our clients will need Technical assistance during their home development phases;

• MHA will be involved in both the technical and finance aspect of Incremental housing;

• The financial and technical support we will provide to our clients will be phased in 4 major areas;

Financial & Technical support – Cont’d

• Land acquisition and Title support

• Construction and Building Support

• Financial and Legal education support

• Post construction support

Land Acquisition and Title Support

• MHAs clients seeking land purchase will be provided with an accredited lawyer to ensure the client’s has proper and verifiable land title;

• This loan will usually form the first tranch of loan disbursed to the client;

• The title documents also secures MHA in the event the client defaults

Construction and Building Support

• All loans disbursed for the purpose of construction and building will go to the developer on behalf of MHAs client;

• All developers building for our clients will need to be accredited by MHA;

• All accredited developers will need to show capacity to build for a certain number of low income clients incrementally.

Financial and Legal Education Support

• It is MHAs responsibility to ensure that the client understand the Loan product and services rendered;

• Our legal partners (not part of MHA) will provide legal advice to clients on the financial implication of the debts undertaken

• All our clients will need to have passed our prequalification and assessment criteria before any loan can be disbursed.

Post Construction Support

• MHA also has home improvement loan products that can be assessed by our clients;

• Offer advisory for additional loans, etc• All our home loan products will be paid

directly to the dealer or its accredited agents and not to the client;

• MHA will engage in loan monitoring• Home improvement loan products have a

maximum loan size of $4,000 per client and payable within 2 years.

MHA Support Services Summary

• Support services for home finance is rare in Nigeria;

• MHA will be the first housing microfinance institution in Nigeria and will also be the first to provide financial and technical support services to its clients.

• As part of our risk management criteria we will ensure most of the financing disbursed will go directly to the technical parties involved (Lawyers, Developers, home improvement dealers e.t.c).

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