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With only a tiny share of Kenya's salaried workers able to access mortgages, industry players are pushing employer-backed home loans repaid through payroll check-off as a way to lift homeownership and help developers scale up.
Ghana's failure to plan and manage its rapidly growing cities is making property development more expensive and discouraging homebuyers, an analysis argues, with weak enforcement of planning laws leaving developers to provide roads, drainage and other services the state should coordinate.
The International Finance Corporation is considering an equity investment in Nawy, the Egyptian property technology platform, building on its backing of Morocco's Yakeey as institutional interest in digitising North Africa's real estate markets grows.
With the Federal Housing Authority breaking ground on a 241-unit estate in Osogbo and land still comparatively affordable, developers and analysts say Osun State is becoming one of the more closely watched housing markets in Nigeria's South-West.
British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett has listed his seven-bedroom Bishopscourt estate in Cape Town at R189 million through Pam Golding Properties, nearly double the R93.3 million he paid for it in 2024, sharpening debate over foreign capital in the city's luxury market.
More young Kenyan women are buying land to build financial security and control their own assets, reshaping the profile of the country's property buyers and opening a new market for developers and lenders.
Repeated flooding and erosion have destroyed homes and farmlands in Mesar Tudu, a farming community in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State, displacing more than 50 households, residents say.
A new book on land and family in central Kenya shows how Nairobi's expansion is driving skyrocketing land prices in Kiambu while smallholders, facing subdivision and inheritance pressures, sell ancestral plots out of a sense of abandon.
Misr Italia Properties' Solare Ras El Hekma, a 400-feddan destination on Egypt's North Coast representing about EGP 58.5bn in investments, is shifting coastal development from seasonal residential communities to fully integrated destinations.