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Saccos target low-end home buyers with new products

When Tai Sacco unveiled Makao in 2021, a mortgage product, the demand was exponential. In about three months of disbursing Sh100 million each, John Mwangi, the Sacco’s chief executive, says there were already liquidity challenges.

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