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Land prices in Ole Kasasi, a fast-growing Nairobi satellite town in Kajiado County, have climbed from as little as Sh500,000 an acre about 15 years ago to as much as Sh30 million in prime sections.
After a business failure left her with $2.5m in debt, Theresa Oppong-Beeko retrained, entered real estate in 1994 and built Manet Housing into a developer of more than 1,800 homes in Accra.
Rents have reached record levels in several African capitals, with Lagos ranked the continent's most expensive city for residential rents, as urbanisation outpaces housing supply.
A new report projects Kenya's real estate market to grow at 5.1 per cent CAGR between 2025 and 2029, ahead of Rwanda's 3.6 per cent, while highlighting Kigali's planning stability as a counterweight for investors.
Luxury developer Sujimoto Holdings says it has repaid more than N40 billion to banks and private lenders after 14 months of financial pressure, with a pledge to clear all legitimate obligations by January 1, 2027.
A new PenOp report says Nigeria's N30.94 trillion pension industry invests less than one per cent of its assets in real estate, even as the country's housing financing gap is estimated at up to N59 trillion.
Estate surveyors say the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is already reshaping urbanisation and land values along the corridor, with hotspots such as Bluewater Okunde recording sharp appreciation.
Chudi Ubosi of estate surveyors Ubosi Eleh & Co says land title delays are keeping Nigeria's wealth locked up, with less than 10 percent of the country's 927,000 square kilometres of land holding adequate legal title.
For many South Africans approaching retirement, downsizing seems like an obvious financial decision, but advisers say transaction costs, capital gains tax and emotional factors often make the real calculation far more complicated.