Kangundo Road

There was a time when land around parts of Nairobi was so abundant that today's property prices would have sounded almost unbelievable. When I first came to Nairobi in the mid-1990s, I remember seeing stretches of bush and undeveloped land around areas such as Umoja and Kayole. Nairobi had already grown considerably, but the city had not yet consumed everything around it. Today, owning a...

For the past decade, Nairobi’s urban housing narrative was dominated by high-density vertical development. High-rise apartment blocks shot up across hubs like Kilimani, Kileleshwa, Lavington, and South C, promising high rental yields and central convenience. However, a major structural shift is underway. Heightened enforcement of Nairobi County’s Development Control Policy, paired with aggressive...