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Unlock new opportunities for your brokerage

Offer Muslim homebuyers ethical, faith-based financing through ijaraCDC’s halal home financing programs, and reach a market conventional mortgages don’t serve.

The market

Untapped market within reach

Around 5 million Muslims call the US home as of 2025, and most of them are looking into owning homes as part of the American dream.

However, they’re steering away from conventional mortgages because of riba, or interest, which goes against their beliefs. With a market looking for ethical, faith-based financing, imagine if you could bring them home. Now you can, thanks to ijaraCDC’s halal home financing.

By the numbers

Here’s what you might be missing

$11 billion
Estimated halal home financing completed in the last 10 years
$281,000
Average home loan amount
39,145
Homes closed within the last 10 years
326
Homes closed per month
750,000
Qualified Islamic households in the US
<5.3%
Of the Muslim market being served

Ready to break through the Muslim community?

Why ijaraCDC is the Ideal Partner

ijaraCDC has been helping brokers fit Muslim homebuyers with their forever homes since 1995. While not a lender, we work with investors to provide home acquisition programs designed to match your customer’s religious beliefs.

Islamic home financing through ijaraCDC perfectly fits the requirements Muslim homebuyers are looking for, as it ensures:

  • No interest (riba)
  • No hidden fees or unethical clauses
  • Asset-backed, transparent structure
  • Programs approved by Islamic scholars

Smart, seamless, and Sharia-compliant – that’s the ijaraCDC way!

How it works

How ijaraCDC Does Halal Home Financing

Three steps to riba-free ownership with ijara CDC.

Step 1

We create a Trust

A trust is established and it owns the property, on your behalf.

Advisors reviewing an application with a client
Step 2

Lease to own

You hold a lease to own agreement on the property the Trust owns.

A lease to own agreement signed with a handshake
Step 3

Own it outright

Each month your rent payment moves a share across, until you own 100%.

A family settling into their new homeNo riba

The ijaraCDC Advantage

20 Years of Expertise

As one of the first to introduce halal home financing in the US, we’re experts at understanding the market’s diverse needs

Tailored Programs

The ijara structuring can be implemented on any type of residential loan such as conventional, FHA and even non-QM, so you can offer more diverse choice of programs.

Complete Support

From custom marketing materials to preparing documents and payment processing, our team is a call or email away

Why ijara CDC

Why Muslim families and businesses choose IjaraCDC

Six reasons families and businesses have financed riba-free with us since 2005.

Twenty years of riba-free home and business ownership
Families, business owners and investors across the USA and Canada
Nonprofit structure — a 501(c)(3), not a bank and not a lender
Lease-to-own agreements reviewed by a Sharia advisory board
300+ residential and commercial funding partners across the US and Canada
Licensed to operate in all 50 US states and Canada
No prepayment penalty on any IjaraCDC program
A transparent profit rate agreed at signing, fixed for the life of the lease

Ready to break through the Muslim community?