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Kenya's Ngong Vet affordable housing project in Kajiado North has reached 60 per cent completion, with all 1,910 planned units expected to serve residents of Ngong and surrounding areas.
Neighbourgood SA is converting the former Happy Rhino Hotel and Backpackers on Cape Town's Loop Street into 130 long-term rental units, the latest step in chief executive Murray Clark's urban regeneration drive.
A 14-storey, solar-powered apartment building rising in Kigali's Kiyovu neighbourhood on land once occupied by two households shows how the rehousing model is creating opportunities for private investors.
Kenya's Boma Yangu Nandi Hills Estate, a 729-unit development led by the State Department for Housing and Urban Development, is about 75 per cent complete, with six residential blocks taking shape.
Two REDAN leaders say Nigeria's housing deficit is the sector's clearest opportunity, while cost pressures, financing gaps and slow approvals remain the main obstacles.
A building that had been sealed by Abuja's Department of Development Control collapsed in Wuse Zone 4, triggering a search-and-rescue operation by multiple emergency agencies.
Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber said the Khedival Cairo development project will proceed in four phases spanning Tahrir Square, Talaat Harb, Opera Square and Qasr El-Nil Street.
Egyptian proptech Nawy closed a second EGP633mn Sharia-compliant fixed-income fund backed by mortgage receivables, taking total issuance above EGP1bn and establishing a repeatable capital-markets channel to fund home financing.
SA listed property specialists say improving retail and industrial fundamentals could support the sector despite weak domestic growth, with potential annual total returns of 14% to 17% over the next two to three years.