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President John Dramani Mahama has given Ghana's local government and housing ministers 14 days to develop a framework resolving the dispute between the Tema Metropolitan Assembly and TDC Ghana over development control and building permits.
The Tanzanian government is assessing whether land tribunals are still needed now that courts across the country can handle land-related disputes, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has told Parliament.
Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has directed officials to compile a list of stalled real estate projects as part of a drive to regulate the market.
Rwanda's long-awaited revised land reference prices are set to take effect once Cabinet gives final approval, after five years without an official update.
A new book on land and family in central Kenya shows how Nairobi's expansion is driving skyrocketing land prices in Kiambu while smallholders, facing subdivision and inheritance pressures, sell ancestral plots out of a sense of abandon.
Octo5 Holdings executive director Lauretta Odusolu says property developers in Lagos must move from a 'build first, solve drainage later' approach to treating flood resilience as part of initial estate design.
Researchers say rapid urbanisation and land reclamation for real estate development in Lagos are reducing the natural flood buffering of wetlands, with more than 60% of the megacity's urban areas projected to face extreme flooding by 2050.
Former Nigerian Institute of Town Planners president Nathaniel Atebije says Abuja needs a credible, transparent and predictable property market to protect investors and residents amid ongoing building demolitions.
Tanzania's Ministry of Lands says Lupita Island in Lake Tanganyika is being transferred to another investor and has not been sold, after US investor Tim Draper announced plans to sell his investment.