Ghana: Selling Homes in Ghana Is Difficult

The talk about Ghana's worsening housing deficit may go on for a while because even if houses were built, the larger chunk of the 1.7 million Ghanaians without decent homes cannot afford to buy.

"When you talk about the deficit, they talk as if, if you were to build them now all those people can take them... if I had the technology that could reduce my properties by 30 per cent, okay, and you gave me 10 million dollars to go and build speculatively for the market, I will not touch it, I won't do it," says Harry Quartey, Chief Executive Officer of Emerald Properties.

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