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Kenya's Auditor-General has found that buildings and land bought by the Central Bank of Kenya were valued below their acquisition and construction cost, pointing to a Sh466.5 million loss on the bank's investment properties.
Former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Davis Nathan Chelogoi has been convicted of five offences over a 7.39-hectare parcel in Lower Kabete, while his co-accused was acquitted. The court found the documents backing his ownership claim could not be authenticated.
Title deed issuance fell 35.3 per cent to 282,392 in the year to June 2026, the first annual decline in five years, as land transactions slowed and bank lending to real estate contracted.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has told senators the Jeevanjee affordable housing project is complete, even as hundreds of buyers who committed savings more than seven years ago say they are still waiting for the homes.
President William Ruto says the Kabarnet Town Affordable Housing Project in Baringo County will be scaled up from 480 to 1,000 units, an addition of 520 homes under the national housing programme.
The Taita Taveta County Assembly is considering a land swap that would hand QWETU SACCO alternative land at Vindo Showground so that the 10-acre Kingstone Stadium site in Voi can be secured for public sporting use.
Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome has announced that the government will build a KSh300 million lands registry in Murang'a South, citing pressure on the existing office which handles more than 400,000 land parcels.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has asked the Senate to consider two legislative reforms on building safety: tougher penalties for developers who breach approved plans and greater powers for county officers to prosecute construction offences.
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation’s Reinsurance Plaza, an 18-storey commercial building at the junction of Aga Khan Walk and Taifa Road, anchors the state insurer’s Nairobi property portfolio alongside Kenya Re Towers and Anniversary Towers.