Top 5 construction technologies to watch in 2020
Sustainability and Green Buildings
Many investors have increasingly embraced green. This has created incentives for builders to design buildings that reduce environmental impacts and promote...
How predictive data is helping building professionals future proof their designs
Architects and design professionals create drawings and conceptual designs using data from the present to build structures in the future. Delays happen. In the...
Kenyan laws real estate investors need to know
Regulatory and legal conditions can promote or curtail cross-border investments in real estate. According to African Law and Business, below are some of the...
Global housing markets are slowing down; research
The global housing market is coming full circle it seems. Experts from certain quarters are getting apprehensive about the health of the housing markets,...
Ten trends shaping African real estate in 2019
African markets are fast evolving. In the information economy, adoption of new ideas and technologies are occurring at unprecedented rates. In the midst of...
Hotel industry faces stiff competition from short-term rentals
Kenya’s hospitality sector has come face to face with the backlash from the influence of online accommodation listings like Airbnb and Booking.com on the...
How to deal with a tenant from hell
Bad tenant, tenant from hell, rogue tenant or whatever the name, some tenants can be a heavy weigh in the hands of a landlord...
Where it costs KSh. 4.9 million per sqm of real estate
The small city state of Monaco is one of a kind. The French principality is in fact by no means small. Located in the...
Kenya had cheapest housing prices in the region in 2018
The price of the cheapest newly built house in Kenya spiked in 2017, reaching KSh. 3 million, the highest over the past nine years....
Real estate investors to watch out for climate change
This time of the year could not be more different and unexpected compared to the same period last year. In contrast to the prevailing...
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