Courtyard Flats Mlolongo Ltd (CFM) has a three part mission.   First is to provide houses and flats to low and middle income Kenyans at prices they can afford while still giving them a safe, attractive, secure home and community to live in.  Courtyard Flats' second mission it to bring home affordability into the range of hundreds of thousands of Nairobi middle and low income workers who have not been able to own their own home before.  And finally Courtyard Flats will achieve the first two missions while still making a profit for its investors so the housing projects continue and become self-sustaining.

Company Profile

Courtyard Flats was founded by Raymond Chisholm, an American Civil Engineer and Developer who left the United States 12 years ago to work in Kenya.  His partners are his wife Jackie Akinyi Jakaila, former Member of Parliament, Engineer David Kombe, and prominent banker Alfornse Kisilu. 

Chisholm was a former Director of the National Society of Professional Engineers in Washington, a planning commissioner in Blacksburg, Virginia and Governor for Professional Engineers in Construction in Virginia.  He has over 30 years of Construction Management and Real Estate Development experience for some of the best construction and development companies in the world.  He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. He has always had a keen interest in building economical housing.

Kisilu has over 12 years of senior management experience at two of the largest banks in Kenya and now heads a three country division of his current bank.  He received his undergraduate degree from Edgerton University and is completing his MBA at Strathmore University. 

Kombe received his Diploma in Building and Civil Engineering from Kenya Polytechnic Higher National Diploma in Building and Civil Engineering from Mombasa Polytechnic and he received his Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Building Services Engineering from the University of Liverpool, UK.  Kombe was the Director of Works for Kompaf Engineering and Construction Ltd.  He was a Lecturer at Mombasa Polytechnic.  Kombe also worked at the Ministry of Works in the Structural and Architectural Department.  He was the Magarina MP from 1997 to 2002.