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Demolitions carried out by the Benue State Urban Development and Planning Board in Makurdi have triggered a debate over whether a planning agency should enforce removals while land ownership is still disputed.
Developers, officials and experts are pushing to create an Egyptian federation of real estate developers to tighten regulation, classification and dispute resolution, as the government drafts a law governing the market.
The 2026 Nigeria Real Estate Report by Ubosi Eleh and Company says land along the Ibeju-Lekki-Epe axis appreciated about 35 per cent year-on-year as ports, a refinery, a free trade zone and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway reprice the corridor.
Nairobi's 17-storey Nation Centre, completed in 1997, is drawing fresh attention as a new building rises beside it, with upper-floor office space advertised from KSh80 per square foot a month.
Six major Egyptian developers secured EGP 52.2bn in bank facilities between March 2025 and August 2026 as longer payment plans pushed the sector towards securitisation and institutional capital, Savills Egypt says.
Rwanda needs about 150,000 new dwellings a year towards projected demand of 5.5 million homes by 2050, but data showing that 60.6 per cent of Kigali households rent points to an affordable-housing shortfall rather than a lack of construction.
Residents of Ajegunle's crowded informal settlements say the real barrier to decent housing is not the monthly rent but the large upfront lump sum that conventional Lagos tenancies demand.
Property lawyers say off-plan buyers in Kenya cannot assume a full refund when a development stalls, after a Nairobi investor lost about Sh450,000 on apartments whose construction never took off, with the courts awarding restitution only where a developer's breach is fundamental.
A decades-old dispute over 933.9 acres near Thindigua in Kiambu County is back before the courts, pitting the Mbari ya Mbogo family's ancestral claim against respondents who say the matter has already been litigated.