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When the ‘property company’ is a bank in a hard hat.
Housebuilders with huge interest-bearing debt fail AAOIFI financial screens even if they pour lawful concrete. Run the desk. Do not sniff the brick.
The Mizan desk · 7 September 2026 · 7 min
A developer’s inventory is houses. Their finance is often a revolving credit facility. The financial screen — debt over market cap, cash plus interest paper — is how a ‘halal sector’ fails. Incidental interest income still wants purification. Core conventional banking inside a property group fails the activity screen outright.
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This guide’s screening desk will take the ratios you type. It will not fetch them. Pull the annual report. Re-run at results. A name can pass in a bull market when market cap inflates the denominator and fail when the share price drops. That is the screen working, not the screen breaking.