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Speculative buyers hit in property & land prices cooldown
By Kepha Muiruri,
1513, February 3, 2021 (EAT)
COVID-19 related disruptions in real estate have halted returns to speculative buyers with property and land prices closing 2020 on a cool down. Ac...
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Multichoice offers free upgrades to customers
By Kepha Muiruri,
1752, January 15, 2021 (EAT)
Digital satellite television services provider Multichoice Kenya has offered free upgrades to its paying subscribers. The new promotion which runs ...
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Kenya’s real estate sector rebounds as housing prices end months of decline
By Kepha Muiruri,
1615, November 13, 2020 (EAT)
The price of houses advertised for sale have rebounded ending months of depreciation in what is a marker for a potential restart in Kenya’s real est...
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Nairobi residents still reliant on landlords as home ownership well dries up
By Kepha Muiruri,
1403, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
A tough economy has left Nairobi residents reliant on rental properties with the availability to funds to purchase homes drying up in the last year. ...
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Ruiru, Ruaka and Utawala among satellite towns leading lift in Nairobi land prices
By Kepha Muiruri,
1610, July 13, 2020 (EAT)
Sustained demand for parcels of land inside Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA) satellite towns has paid dividends for land investors as land prices recov...
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Covid-19: Land prices fall, rental income expected to decline
By Kepha Muiruri,
955, May 8, 2020 (EAT)
The Covid-19 pandemic has reduced investor speculation on the appreciation of land prices leading to the lower setting of prices, a new report shows. ...
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Report: Africa Delivers Largest Profits on Investment
By CNN,
1436, February 6, 2020 (EAT)
British companies have made bigger profits investing in Africa than in any other region of the world, according to a new report from the Overseas Deve...
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House prices in satellite towns register first historical drop – Hass Index
By Kepha Muiruri,
2106, January 30, 2020 (EAT)
Home owners in Nairobi’s satellites towns took their first beating in more than a decade as both house and rental prices registered a dip in 2019, a...
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Internet users in Kenya affected as SEACOM cites outage
By Citizen Reporter,
1342, October 23, 2019 (EAT)
SEACOM has announced a major network outage affecting Kenya and South Africa. The company, that is behind the broadband submarine cable system alon...
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Establishment of new Malls extend losses for retail property investors
By Kepha Muiruri,
1328, October 19, 2019 (EAT)
The establishment of new malls in the past year has extended losses for retail property investors, a new report shows. According to the annually pu...
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Matatu app SWVL eyes upcountry rides amid clash with NTSA
By Kepha Muiruri,
1956, October 17, 2019 (EAT)
Bus-hailing service SWVL has set its sights on operations between Nairobi and other towns even as the firm remains embroiled in a spiky regulatory hur...
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Why Uhuru’s second SGR train fails basic commuter logic
By Kepha Muiruri,
1532, October 16, 2019 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta boarded the inaugural Nairobi-Suswa train on Wednesday, pushing the ignition on what seems to be the start of unfathomable co...
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Rivals Quickmart, Tumaini Supermarkets set to merge
By Kepha Muiruri,
1814, September 5, 2019 (EAT)
Retail rivals Quickmart and Tumaini have commenced merger deliberations which will effectively lead to joint operations by the close of 2020. The u...
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How China is slowly expanding its power in Africa, one TV set at a time
By CNN,
1119, July 24, 2019 (EAT)
In the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Michael Nganga is watching a Chinese Kung Fu movie. His small home in Limuru doesn't have running water and i...
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SPONSORED: 4 major adjustments poised to salvage Kenya’s real estate market
By Sponsored,
1623, April 8, 2019 (EAT)
Emerging from a stagnant economy after political turmoil, Kenya’s real estate industry is set to boom once again in 2019 from the growing middle cla...
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ICT Ministry to kicks off digital registration in September
By Kepha Muiruri,
1807, August 13, 2018 (EAT)
Kenyans could as early as December acquire new identity cards (IDs) as the government moves fast-tracks the implementation of the mass bio-metric nati...
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Property, land prices rise after shaky 2017
By Kepha Muiruri,
1714, July 10, 2018 (EAT)
The real estate sector is slowly bouncing back after a tough 2017, with rental and property prices rising between April and June. According to the ...
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US sues to block $85bn AT&T-Time Warner merger
By Michael Karanja,
1108, November 21, 2017 (EAT)
The US government filed suit to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner, setting up the biggest antitrust court clash in decades over the $85 billi...
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Cytonn acquires 25pc stake in Superior Homes
By Citizen Team,
2229, January 31, 2017 (EAT)
Investment firm Cytonn has made a Sh1 billion play to acquire a 25 percent stake in property development firm Superior Homes. The move will see Cyt...
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Zuku takes on M-Kopa with solar TVs
By Citizen,
1439, December 6, 2016 (EAT)
Internet and pay TV service provider Zuku has partnered with UK based Azuri Technologies to supply solar powered televisions to five million homes not...
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