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The Kaduna State House of Assembly is considering legislation to regulate residential rents across the state, as rising accommodation costs put increasing pressure on household incomes.
Ethiopia is establishing its first dedicated mortgage refinance company, capitalised at 100 billion birr (about $620 million), under a National Bank of Ethiopia and IFC cooperation framework aimed at unlocking long-term housing finance.
Ghana's Local Government Minister Mahama Ayariga has announced plans to redevelop the Korle Lagoon slum in Accra into high-rise container housing, beginning with a military-led evacuation and clearing of the dumpsite.
The Federal Government has urged the Real Estate Marketers and Consultants Association of Nigeria to prioritise professionalism and credible data, saying proposed reforms will address registration and credibility of practitioners.
President John Dramani Mahama has given Ghana's local government and housing ministers 14 days to develop a framework resolving the dispute between the Tema Metropolitan Assembly and TDC Ghana over development control and building permits.
The Tanzanian government is assessing whether land tribunals are still needed now that courts across the country can handle land-related disputes, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has told Parliament.
Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has directed officials to compile a list of stalled real estate projects as part of a drive to regulate the market.
Rwanda's long-awaited revised land reference prices are set to take effect once Cabinet gives final approval, after five years without an official update.
A new book on land and family in central Kenya shows how Nairobi's expansion is driving skyrocketing land prices in Kiambu while smallholders, facing subdivision and inheritance pressures, sell ancestral plots out of a sense of abandon.