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Lagos State says it will provide sustainable infrastructure across government-owned housing estates, including a shift to solar power for sewage and water treatment plants to cushion rising electricity tariffs.
Uganda's state minister for lands, Harriet Ntabazi, warned officials in eastern Uganda against grabbing public land as the government's national land inventory rollout reached Mbale.
Former REDAN president Aliyu Wamakko has described real estate as a conduit for money laundering, urging the government to cut cement taxes and consider subsidies while calling for passage of the Real Estate Regulation and Development bill.
Former residents of Buxton in Mombasa and human rights groups are pressing the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to disclose the status of its investigation into how six acres of public land were transferred for an affordable housing project.
Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority has published the second edition of its real estate valuation standards, more than 11 years after the first, in a move aimed at strengthening mortgage finance, real estate investment and investor confidence.
Kenya's National Land Commission has published a notice to compulsorily acquire more than 300 land parcels for the Naivasha-Kisumu-Malaba Standard Gauge Railway, a project estimated at Ksh700 billion.
Real estate developer David Assogba-Lissassi says the cost of bank finance, land, materials and labour, together with weak regulation, is stopping developers from delivering affordable homes in Nigeria.
Ghana's horse-racing community has petitioned the presidency, the Lands Commission and the Sports Ministry, demanding restoration of the Borteyman Racecourse and title to the disputed land.
Kenya's High Court has lifted orders blocking a Senate committee from investigating a land dispute at Two Rivers Crescent Estate in Kiambu, clearing a son of former intelligence chief James Kanyotu to appear.