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Plots in Nairobi's Kahawa Sukari that sold for Sh400,000 to Sh700,000 in the early 2000s now fetch between Sh12.5 million and Sh15 million, as a residents' welfare association enforces controls that bar apartment blocks from the estate.
Fusion Group, the Kenyan private equity and real estate investment firm, is marking 20 years in East Africa with plans to expand across the continent, anchored on a proposed 600-home development in Juja, Kiambu County.
More than 130 residents of Chandavai in Lamu County have sued to stop the proposed Ksh 2 trillion Dangote oil refinery, saying the project would unlawfully take land their families have occupied and farmed for generations.
Murang'a Governor Irungu Kang'ata has unveiled a plan to build a 1,400-acre industrial city, more than three times the size of Nairobi's 350-acre central business district, by leasing land to manufacturers at Ksh 7 million an acre.
The Port of Lamu has received about 2,930 tonnes of construction machinery for the proposed Sh2.2 trillion Dangote East Africa Refinery, days before a planned groundbreaking ceremony on September 30.
Narendra Raval's Devki Group has begun building a Ksh50 billion (US$386 million) cement factory at Ngaaie in Mwingi North, Kitui County, with operations targeted for mid-2027.
Nairobi's 17-storey Nation Centre, completed in 1997, is drawing fresh attention as a new building rises beside it, with upper-floor office space advertised from KSh80 per square foot a month.
The Busia ATC Estate affordable housing project is being built in two phases on a 10.5-acre site, with 1,025 units in Phase I at 25 per cent complete and a further 1,026 units planned for Phase II, Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo has said.
The Boma Yangu Milimani Affordable Housing Project in Kakamega is now fully occupied, with all 220 homes completed under its first phase taken up by families, Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo has said.