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Kenya's lands CS urges built-environment professionals to back draft practitioners bill

Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome has urged Kenyan architects and quantity surveyors to reach quick consensus on the proposed Architectural and Quantity Surveying Practitioners Bill, warning that delay could hurt its legislative timeline.

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Egypt to submit new real estate development market law to parliament, PM says

Egypt is preparing a dedicated law to regulate the real estate development market and will submit it to the House of Representatives as soon as possible, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said, amid a government push to protect buyers and developers.

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Nigeria opens housing partnership talks with China Railway subsidiary TEC Engineering

The Federal Government says it is ready to deepen engagement with TEC Engineering (Nigeria), a China Railway International Group subsidiary, on large-scale housing delivery, urban renewal and public-private partnerships.

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Ghana's poor urban planning is choking the real estate industry, analysis warns

Ghana's failure to plan and manage its rapidly growing cities is making property development more expensive and discouraging homebuyers, an analysis argues, with weak enforcement of planning laws leaving developers to provide roads, drainage and other services the state should coordinate.

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Tanzania cuts land survey fee to TZS 130,000 per plot in developed areas

Tanzania has reduced the cost of planning and surveying a plot in developed areas to TZS 130,000 under the 2021 Regularization Guideline, down from as much as TZS 400,000, as the government pushes more urban landholders to formalise titles.

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Kaduna Assembly moves to regulate residential rents as housing costs squeeze households

The Kaduna State House of Assembly is considering legislation to regulate residential rents across the state, as rising accommodation costs put increasing pressure on household incomes.

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Ethiopia moves to establish $620m mortgage refinance company with IFC backing

Ethiopia is establishing its first dedicated mortgage refinance company, capitalised at 100 billion birr (about $620 million), under a National Bank of Ethiopia and IFC cooperation framework aimed at unlocking long-term housing finance.

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Ghana plans high-rise container housing for Korle Lagoon slum in Accra

Ghana's Local Government Minister Mahama Ayariga has announced plans to redevelop the Korle Lagoon slum in Accra into high-rise container housing, beginning with a military-led evacuation and clearing of the dumpsite.

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FG tasks REMCAN on credible data in building stronger real estate industry

The Federal Government has urged the Real Estate Marketers and Consultants Association of Nigeria to prioritise professionalism and credible data, saying proposed reforms will address registration and credibility of practitioners.