real estate trends Kenya

When house hunters in Nairobi talk about location, price and schools, a new item quietly slips into the decision mix: will the plot or estate have reliable water? The accelerating problem — borehole depletion Nairobi housing market — is changing how developers design projects, how buyers evaluate value, and how entire neighbourhoods are priced. What once was a back-office engineering concern now sits...

In Nairobi and other fast-growing urban centers, property buyers are no longer swayed by walls, roofs, and square footage alone. Increasingly, community-centered amenities in Kenya—such as shared work pods, wellness gardens, and co-living courtyards—are becoming the real determinants of property value. Developers who fail to integrate these emerging lifestyle assets risk being left behind in a market...

Kenya is urbanising fast, but a surprising amount of land inside and around our cities sits idle—bought by investors who wait for roads, metros or new zoning to push prices up. This practice—commonly called land banking—is often presented as a sensible long-term investment. Yet when scaled across peri-urban Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and fast-growing satellite towns, it becomes a structural drag on...