Buy or rent a house from the Civil Servants Housing Scheme
State Department for Housing and Urban Development · sources read 3 Oct 2026
When a sale is open, download the sale form for that estate from housingandurban.go.ke and return it to the CSHSF office at Ardhi House with a 10% deposit; allocation is first come, first served. Serving civil servants can also apply to rent a CSHSF government quarter in Nairobi.
- Fee
- KSh 1,000Sale application form (Kiambu CSHS houses)
- Where
- CSHSF Secretariat, Ardhi House, Ground Floor Wing A, Nairobi (forms from housingandurban.go.ke)
What you need
- Buying: certified copies of your and your spouse's ID, last 3 months' payslips, one passport photo, children's birth certificates, and ID and birth certificate of next of kin and beneficiaries
- Renting: 3 latest payslips certified by your employer's HR director (or your current contract), copy of ID, a current passport photo and children's birth certificates
Steps
- Get the application form for the estate on sale (or the CSHSF Nairobi rental form) from the Downloads page of housingandurban.go.ke.
- To buy: return the filled form to the CSHSF Secretariat, Ardhi House, Ground Floor Wing A (or the local county housing office named on the form) with a 10% deposit paid by banker's cheque or into the Fund's KCB account.
- If you get a house, sign a tenant purchase agreement or pay the full price within 90 days of accepting the offer.
- To rent: address the form to the PS, Housing and Urban Development, through your ministry's HR director, and hand it in at the CSHSF office, Ardhi House Ground Floor, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Watch out
- Tenant purchase (paying over time) is only for serving national government civil servants and NPS officers. Others must pay outright and get the house only after full payment.
- Sales open and close by estate. The last listed call (Nairobi and Nakuru) is marked closed, so check the site for an open sale before paying any deposit.
- A rental application is valid for one calendar year only.
Who can apply
- Buying (Kiambu sale): serving national government civil servants, National Police Service officers, public servants and members of the public. Members of the public pay 5% more.
- Renting: civil servants who have not already bought a scheme house, had a CSHSF loan or mortgage, or been given a government house.
Official sources (4)
- Application form for purchase of houses developed by Civil Servants Housing Scheme in Kiambu housingandurban.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- Application for Civil Servant Housing Scheme Fund Government Quarter in Nairobi housingandurban.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- Downloads housingandurban.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- Tenders (EOI Sale of Houses) housingandurban.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026