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Martin Wragge, the South African property developer behind Cape Town's iconic Century City and Canal Walk Shopping Centre, transformed swampland into one of the continent's most successful mixed-use hubs while navigating near-bankruptcy and boardroom battles.
The ARISE Africa Summit held in Lagos brought together stakeholders to explore innovative solutions and investment opportunities across the continent's real estate sector. The event highlighted Africa's growing property market and the role of technology and policy in shaping its future.
Plans are underway to develop an 800-unit workers' housing estate in Ebonyi State, with funding support from the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) through a Public-Private Partnership arrangement.
The National Homeownership Fund (NHF) is expanding its affordable housing interventions through strategic partnerships, district housing projects and innovative financing initiatives to increase access to decent homes for Ghanaian workers and families.
President John Dramani Mahama has said the first 700 units of the long-delayed Saglemi Housing Project will be ready for commissioning by March 2027, as the redevelopment of the 5,000-unit estate advances.
The Federal Government has started building 250 housing units for civil servants in Dukpa, Gwagwalada, Abuja, under a partnership between the housing ministry and the Head of the Civil Service office.
The Group Managing Director of Haldane McCall Plc, Edward Akinlade, says lower-cost financing, better infrastructure and simpler land and tax policies are needed to unlock investment in Nigeria's real estate and hospitality sectors.
International Housing Solutions Kenya says expensive financing and tax uncertainty are slowing the country's affordable housing push, as it unveils a Sh1 billion, 240-unit development in Tilisi.
Nigeria's 14.9 million-unit housing deficit is pushing policymakers and developers toward incremental housing, cooperatives, rent-to-own and public-private partnerships, as experts warn affordability, finance and infrastructure gaps still block scale.