Africa’s best bank for real estate 2025: Standard Bank

Standard Bank has built one of Africa’s most influential real estate finance franchises, using its pan-African balance sheet to back the continent’s urban transformation.  

Over the research period, the bank executed 69 real estate deals worth more than $2 billion across the continent, and now carries an estimated $6.3 billion real estate loan book spanning more than 16 African countries. That portfolio has been expanding at 7%-10% a year, with non-performing loans kept below 50 basis points.

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