Maldives real estate, reported from the ground: developments, developers, prices, rules, and the homes behind them.
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Everything the desk has published under “lenders”.
Rules & rates
HDFC is 49% government-owned, with IFC and ADB holding 18% each and India's HDFC Bank 15%. Its 2025 annual report says work is under way on an orderly exit of the foreign shareholders. What HDFC is, how it funds its lending, and what a change of owners could mean.
Rules & rates
In May 2025 the Maldives Monetary Authority gave MFLC a pre-operational permit to become Maldives Finance and Leasing Bank. By its December 2025 accounts it still took no deposits. What the permit means, and what MFLC's numbers say about it as a lender.
