Ten years ago, anyone serious about buying near Nairobi looked at Karen, Runda, or Kitisuru and stopped there. That’s no longer where the activity is. Prices in those established areas have climbed well beyond what most first-time buyers can justify, and the Nairobi land sale market has quietly shifted outward, following the roads rather than […]
Ten years ago, anyone serious about buying near Nairobi looked at Karen, Runda, or Kitisuru and stopped there. That’s no longer where the activity is. Prices in those established areas have climbed well beyond what most first-time buyers can justify, and the Nairobi land sale market has quietly shifted outward, following the roads rather than […]
A friend of mine spent four months negotiating a plot near Ruiru, only to discover during the transfer process that the seller’s title deed didn’t match the land registry records. The plot itself was fine. The paperwork behind it wasn’t, and that gap cost him the deal and most of a year. Stories like this […]
A colleague of mine bought a plot outside Nairobi in 2015 purely as a speculative hold, no plan to build, just land she could sell later. It sat untouched for eight years and sold last year for roughly four times what she paid. That kind of outcome gets talked about a lot in conversations about […]
When people hear “golf estate,” a lot of them assume the golf course is the whole pitch, and the land itself is just an accessory to club membership. That’s backwards. The plots are the actual product. The golf course, the walking trails, and the club facilities are what make the surrounding land worth more than […]
Real estate investment in Kenya gets discussed in two modes. You either read that land values are climbing 15% a year and right now is the best possible time to buy. Or you read about fraud cases, stalled developments, and people who lost deposits that they couldn’t recover. Neither mode is useful if you’re sitting […]
Most Kenyan land buyers walk into a site visit with the wrong questions. Not bad questions — just the obvious ones. What’s the price? How big is the plot? How long is the payment plan? Every developer is ready for those. They’ve answered them a thousand times. The questions that actually separate a good land […]
Most people who enquire about Migaa Golf Club are not golfers. That’s not a complaint — it’s just a consistent observation. The estate has an 18-hole championship course, and the membership is what separates Migaa from every other land seller near Nairobi. But when we ask buyers what drew them to enquire first, golf usually […]
When you buy land near Nairobi, you’ll be told the plot is either freehold or leasehold. The difference sounds technical and most sellers don’t explain it in any useful way — they just move on to the payment plan. But it matters, particularly if you’re planning to mortgage the land, sell it in future, or […]
Buying land in Kenya from abroad is entirely possible. The Constitution gives every Kenyan the right to own land anywhere in the country regardless of residence. But the remote nature of the purchase creates specific risks that local buyers don’t face to the same degree — primarily the inability to physically verify what you’re buying […]
