Stockholm Ethiopian Embassy- Housing Cooperation

Quick Information on Construction of Residential House

Who can apply?

1. Ethiopian who has valid Ethiopian passport and permanent resident permit or foreign national of Ethiopian origin who has got Identity Card of Ethiopian origin and is above the age of 18 can apply to build a house in any part of the country securing land from a municipality of a regional state as per the rules of the state.

2. Interested individuals are advised to organize themselves and form a cooperative (association) for housing construction.

3. Individuals who are interested they can also participate in a bidding process to get the land. The price of plot of land will be determined through bidding.

How to form an Association?

► to facilitate acquisition of land and construction, individuals can form a Housing association that has a minimum of 10 members.

► members should be willing to construct the house together with other members and be ready to contribute financial or other obligations as required by the Association.

► The Association should have a constitution endorsed by members of Executive and Supervisory Committee of the Association. (A sample of a Constitution can be obtained from our Embassy office or website)

► each member should appoint his legal representative in Ethiopia. The total number of representatives of the association should not be less than 6. The legal representatives of the members will be responsible for securing land, construction and/or supervising the construction.

► Forms that should be used for the application purposes are available at the Honorary Consulate Offices of Ethiopia. The Embassy can also make them available to any interested group upon request.

What are the Application Procedures?

The chairman or a representative appointed by the Association should submit the following documents to the Embassy for authentication.

Documents that should be presented to the Embassy:

A. An application letter,

B. Three certified copies of the Constitution of the House Construction cooperative signed on each page by the members of the Executive and Supervisory Committee. Name list of the founding members with their contract address and signature should also be attached.

C. Certified authorization document of the appointment of individual representative in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by each member of the cooperative.

4. D. Two original copies of certified Minutes of the Meeting which indicate that the founding members:

agreed on the constitution of the House Construction cooperative,
decided on the type of logo or design of the seal of the cooperative,
selected members of the executive and supervisory committee and
name list of authorized representatives of the members in Addis Ababa.
Applicants should attach copies of their passport, or ID card (for those who receive ID card of Ethiopian origin.) residence permit i.e. Personbevis (Sweden), Folkeregisteret (Denmark), Folkeregister (Norway), Extract from the Population Information System (Finland), Einstaklingar (Island)).

After authentication, the documents would be channeled to the competent Authorities in Ethiopia through the head office.

Directive about Condominium Association in Ethiopia for Ethiopians Abroad (PDF)

Application for Addis Ababa

Ethiopians residing in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries back to their home country. The project offers non-resident Ethiopians land upon which to build a home in Addis Ababa.

In Addis Ababa, Applicants can build (condominium) apartment.

Applicants who want to build a home in Addis Ababa should have to form Condominium Association/Cooperative. Not in individual basis.

Please read below for more information

Application Forms for Condominium Associations(FDF)

Members of the housing cooperative/Association/ must be; Ethiopian by birth, regardless of current citizenship.

►Foreign Nationals of Ethiopian Origins must have a valid Ethiopian Origin ID CARD.

►Ethiopian citizens must have valid Ethiopian passport and a permanent resident or working permit from current country of residence.

►The Associations can have of 12 or more members (a multiple of 6).

In Addis Ababa, applicants can get land as follows:

Upto 50 sqm of land	Free of charge
For additional 51-250sqm	The full lease price should be paid
For additional 251-500sqm	1.5×lease price
For additional 501-1000 sqm	2×lease price
For additional 1001-1500 sqm	2.5×lease price
For additional 1501-2500 sqm	3×lease price and
For more than 2500 sqm	4×lease price

Members of the Association will be requested to deposit the following sum of money in blocked account depending on the size of the land requested:

For 50 sqm of land	4,000 birr is to be deposited,
For 51-250 sqm of land	8,000 birr is to be deposited
Greater than 250 sqm of land	15,000 birr is to be deposited

Payment

There is no fee to be submitted to the Embassy in order to form a housing association in Ethiopia. The only payment that the beneficiaries are required to pay is the service fee to have their Power of Attorney notarized by the Embassy.

Regarding the Power of Attorney, each form may be processed at a cost of 515 SEK.

In Regions

Any Ethiopian who has valid Ethiopian passport and permanent resident permit or foreign national of Ethiopian origin who has got Identity Card of Ethiopian origin can apply to build a house in any regional state as per the rules of the state.

Directives/ Rules to build housing in Oromia State (PDF)

Rules to build housing in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State(PDF)

In the Regional states, applicants can apply in two forms

A. Regional Housing Cooperative or

B. Individually.

It is to be noted that our Embassy provided support letter to individuals wishing to build a house in Regional State.

Please note that currently the State put on hold this privilege until further notice.