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Housing demand is exploding in Nairobi’s outskirts—but roads, water, and schools aren’t keeping pace. Rapid growth in areas like Utawala and Githunguri is exposing a widening infrastructure gap.
Centum is cutting mortgage costs to unlock stalled home sales. The move signals rising pressure on developers to close deals in a tight property market.
Prime land in Mombasa’s Nyali suburb is now selling for as much as KSh146 million per acre. Strong investor demand and limited supply are pushing values to record levels along Kenya’s coast.
A two-bedroom house in Nairobi’s elite suburbs now costs almost the same as one in middle-income neighborhoods. Falling demand has erased a price gap that once stretched into the millions.
A Kenyan court has suspended a controversial US-backed Ebola facility before a key hearing next week. The decision follows growing concerns over public health risks and constitutional violations.
Northern Kenya is set for one of its biggest housing investments since Independence. President William Ruto says more than Ksh45 billion will fund affordable housing projects across three historically underserved counties.
Kenya is accelerating one of Africa’s largest affordable housing programmes with a target of one million homes by 2027. The government says the initiative is central to tackling the country’s housing shortage while creating jobs and boosting economic growth.
French firms are targeting Kenya’s housing sector after new investment talks between Nairobi and Paris. Affordable housing projects are now emerging as a gateway for deeper European private capital into East Africa.
Nairobi’s growing housing deficit is reshaping the type of projects investors are building. Developers are increasingly turning to eco-friendly mixed-use developments as demand rises in the city’s prime neighborhoods.