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Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority has published the second edition of its real estate valuation standards, more than 11 years after the first, in a move aimed at strengthening mortgage finance, real estate investment and investor confidence.
Kenya's National Land Commission has published a notice to compulsorily acquire more than 300 land parcels for the Naivasha-Kisumu-Malaba Standard Gauge Railway, a project estimated at Ksh700 billion.
Real estate developer David Assogba-Lissassi says the cost of bank finance, land, materials and labour, together with weak regulation, is stopping developers from delivering affordable homes in Nigeria.
Ghana's horse-racing community has petitioned the presidency, the Lands Commission and the Sports Ministry, demanding restoration of the Borteyman Racecourse and title to the disputed land.
Kenya's High Court has lifted orders blocking a Senate committee from investigating a land dispute at Two Rivers Crescent Estate in Kiambu, clearing a son of former intelligence chief James Kanyotu to appear.
Lagos State says structured public-private partnerships will be central to closing a housing deficit that has risen to 3.4 million units and requires an estimated N6 trillion in annual investment.
Egypt has issued national real estate identification numbers for all buildings nationwide, linking many individual units to utilities data in a push to tighten property records and ownership verification.
Cameroon has begun talks with UN-Habitat on financial mechanisms to turn part of its 2.5 million-unit housing shortfall into effective demand, though no funding commitment was announced.
Kenya's government says about 10,000 affordable housing units have been completed and 8,000 occupied, with a much larger pipeline still under construction and a revolving financing model under consideration.