By Hawa Shaffi, Senior Sales Manager at GulfCapRe For the past several decades, the defining trend of Kenyan urban growth has been a rapid and steady migration toward peripheral satellite towns, driven primarily by the search for affordable land and housing. However, this uncontrolled outward expansion carries heavy, often invisible burdens for both households and municipal governments alike. Families frequently find themselves trapped in exhausting, multi-hour daily commutes

Benard Ojwaya is General Manager of GulfCap Real Estate (GCRE). The billboard goes up before the road does. It stands at the edge of a murram track somewhere beyond the last matatu stage, red letters on white: Prime plots. Title deeds ready. Ten minutes from the highway. By evening the same promise has travelled through a dozen WhatsApp groups, and a family in Nairobi is doing sums on the back of a school fees receipt. Now drive an hour north-west of Nairobi, down the escarpm

As Kenya's housing boom reshapes its cities, researchers and child development experts are raising an uncomfortable question: what is the built environment doing to the children growing up inside it? According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, approximately 1.5 million children in Nairobi wake up and go to school every morning. Before any teacher has said a word, these children have already spent eight to ten hours inside homes that, according to a growing body of

By May Waihenya, Chief Development Officer, GulfCap Real Estate. Like ships on the horizon, Kenya’s housing targets shimmer with promise, vast, ambitious, and freighted with every citizen’s wish but the closer they dock, the clearer it becomes that not all dreams are aboard. The Kenyan government aims to deliver 200,000 new urban housing units annually, an ambitious target meant to address both growing population and the urban housing deficit. Yet by late 2024, signs of satur

By Benard Ojwaya, General Manager, GulfCap Real Estate Going through some articles penned 5 years ago, I noticed that the message rings true today as it did then- Re-established in July 2000, the East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of six partner states with a focus on four pillars of Integration: customs union, common market, monetary union and political federation. With a vision to form a common federation for greater and sustainable