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Kenya Railways has set out fresh details of the Sh30 billion Railway City plan, dividing 438 acres around Nairobi Central Station into six precincts and allocating the largest share of land to affordable and sustainable housing.
South Africa’s first overhaul of its eviction framework in more than 20 years conflates criminal land invasion with ordinary lease disputes, and its joinder rules risk shifting municipal housing duties onto private landlords, a litigator warns.
Moladi founder Hennie Botes wants South Africa's housing crisis to become an engine for local business, using reusable plastic formwork and a stokvel-inspired model that trains residents to build their own homes.
The Patriotic Alliance has put municipal bills at the centre of its election pitch, promising a three-month property rates holiday for qualifying homes, transfers of council houses to long-standing tenants and protection of municipal land for affordable housing.
Cape Town's proposed short-term letting by-law would push heavily let properties into the commercial rates category, and a property practitioner argues the knock-on effect on net income could shift what investors are willing to pay.
Moroccan developer Addoha has launched Palm Bay, an ultra-luxury villa scheme in Assinie, and unveiled a new premium brand as it expands across Cote d'Ivoire. Its 20 Ivorian projects represent potential revenue of about 22.3 billion dirhams.
A R34-million Eastern Cape human settlements contract to rebuild 200 storm-damaged homes in Mbizana has not produced a single completed house in three years, leaving residents to build with their own social grants.
A heritage building at 153 Loop Street in Cape Town's city centre is being converted into The Delaporte, a boutique hotel with 43 individually owned sectional-title studios and design suites priced from R1.895 million.
Stellenbosch University provides beds for about 7,500 of its more than 30,000 students, leaving the majority to compete for private rental housing in a town where industry estimates put South Africa’s student accommodation shortfall at 500,000 to 780,000 beds.