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Real estate expert Moshood Ajeniya says rising prices, rents and construction costs are pushing more middle-class Nigerians toward long-lease property ownership, which needs far less upfront capital than buying outright.
New FNB data shows repeat home buyers accounted for 51% of female home loan applications in 2025, the first time in a decade they have outnumbered first-time buyers among women.
Purple Real Estate Income Plc was the sole price decliner on the NASD Over-the-Counter Securities Exchange on Wednesday, pulling down the platform by 0.13 per cent.
HFCB Plc Group, the Kenyan lender formerly known as Housing Finance, reported a 59.9 per cent rise in half-year profit after tax, driven by higher earnings from lending and other banking activities.
A long-running legal battle over a Sh8 billion parcel of prime land in Nairobi's Karen estate is set to move to the Supreme Court of Kenya.
GREDA data shows about 70 percent of homebuyers in Ghana are indigenous Ghanaians, as diaspora wealth fails to absorb the country's expanding housing supply.
The MOFI Real Estate Investment Fund has disbursed more than N140 billion in mortgage financing to over 2,000 Nigerians since it began operations in March 2025.
Ghana's building cost inflation rose to 4.0% in July 2026, up from 3.1% in June, driven mainly by rising construction material prices and sharp increases in plant and equipment costs, new Ghana Statistical Service data shows.
Real estate developers, investment analysts and a quantity surveyor say rising land, material, labour and infrastructure costs are squeezing residential development in Lagos, with the higher costs increasingly passed on to buyers and tenants.