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More than 70 Kenyan diaspora purchasers say they have committed about KSh260 million to a Ruaka apartment development since 2019 and are asking government to intervene after construction stalled.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja says the Eastleigh building that collapsed on Friday had construction approval but no occupation certificate, blaming weak enforcement and penalties too small to deter illegal development.
The Central Bank of Kenya's September 2026 Market Perceptions Survey found that industry decline and cost reduction each accounted for 33 percent of the factors behind real estate respondents' employment expectations for 2026.
Twenty-one Italian companies are exhibiting at Big 5 Construct Kenya in Nairobi, with the Italian Trade Agency putting two-way trade at about KSh40.95 billion and Italian construction-product exports at KSh1.7 billion.
Eighty-three Jua Kali associations supplied windows and doors worth Ksh 264 million for the Pioneer Affordable Housing Project in Eldoret, supporting more than 956 micro, small and medium enterprises.
Teresia Wairimu Kirima says plots on the roughly 1,000-acre Kirima land in Njiru are being sold without her consent, and has told buyers to hold their payments and banks to stop taking the title as security.
Kenya is using its affordable housing programme to draw foreign manufacturers of building materials into local production, KNCCI President Erick Rutto said as the ninth Big 5 Construct Kenya exhibition opened in Nairobi.
Kenya's Court of Appeal has refused to reopen a decades-old compensation dispute over land acquired for Ndakaini Dam, leaving the National Land Commission and Nairobi City County exposed to a bill of about Sh608 million.
Kenya's Senate has launched an inquiry into the affordable housing programme, demanding a project-by-project audit of costs, expenditure and unit allocations across all 47 counties.