Answered by Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
Can you please check out this we site and tell me if buying a house this way is halal or haram?
In the name of Allah, the Inspirer of truth.
We are still in the process of looking at the mentioned company’s model among other home buying schemes, therefore we are unable to give you any answer on this at present.
However, as mentioned in earlier posts, Guidance Financial and HSBC Amanah Home Finance have been considered to be truly Shari’a compliant by Mufti Taqi, Shaykh Yusuf Talal Delorenzo and other experts in the field http://albalagh.net/qa/0015.shtml.
Likewise, UM Financial Toronto www.UMFinancial.com is also supervised by an independent board of well known scholars of Toronto.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalam
Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf