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But investors worried the impact of the global economiccrisis would wither growth and affect others sectors such asconstruction and the stock market, where real estate companiesunderpinned the bourse’s good performance. Housing Minister Taoufik Hejira said real estate was hit bya “psychological crisis” caused by the global turmoil. “The (real) estate market is healthy with strongfundamentals There is no real crisis in the business. It isjust a psychological crisis,” he told Reuters on the sidelinesthe signing ceremony. Under the deals with the developers, including Addoha(ADH.CS) and CDI, the real estate arm of Morocco’s biggeststate fund CDG, BMCE will keep credit flowing and guaranteeloans for middle class buyers.

“The government would provide a 50 percent guarantee forthe loans and the bank would guarantee the other 50 percent tokeep the real estate on the track of growth,” Hejira added. Other banks are expected to follow BMCE to try to ward offthe impact of the crisis, officials said. BMCE has a 24 percentshare of the country’s real estate loans. “The measures adopted by BMCE bank target the middle class,which constitutes the backbone of the stability of oursociety,” BMCE Chairman Othman Benjelloun told the gathering. BMCE unveiled a financial product named Salaf DamaneAssakane (housing guarantee loan) for middle class housescosting 800,000 Moroccan Dihrams ($93,730) or six times theaverage low-income price. STRONG POTENTIAL The government launched a programme to sustain real estategrowth, including a scheme to eradicate slums in the maincities to help fight poverty and radical Islamists. Eleven suicide bombers from Casablanca’s slums killedthemselves and 34 others in 2003, jolting the government intotackling poverty and other social problems.

Despite the government’s efforts, a third of the 15 millionMoroccans living in cities lack decent housing, Hejira said. About Half of the 30 million population live in thecountryside. “Five million people among the 15 urban population needdecent housing Each year, 150,000 new couples need homes. Thatis to say, what potential of growth the estate sector has,” headded.