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With Cape Town house prices up 12% year on year against 4.9% in Johannesburg, agents say first-time buyers are co-buying with parents and pooling income for smaller units.
546 judgment creditors have asked Lagos to revoke a global certificate of occupancy covering 549 Shangisha plots issued to Chief Adebayo Adeyiga and two associates while two appeals remain pending.
Residents of the Namibian port town of Lüderitz say they have waited up to 30 years for land or housing while oil, gas and green-hydrogen investment pushes rents and prices beyond local incomes.
Uganda's Commercial Court has ordered ABSA Bank to hand back two land titles used to secure a US$300,000 loan to a third party and to pay Shs200 million in damages to the couple who owned them.
The Sh778.2 million Majengo-Talai Affordable Housing Project in Kericho Town is 63 per cent complete, with 324 units under construction as the county's pipeline grows to about 4,852 homes.
A UN World Cities Day webinar hosted by Nelson Mandela University heard that certified innovative building systems, from polystyrene-cement blocks to cross-laminated timber, are ready to scale but still face financing and regulatory hurdles.
Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat says Lagos will move from legislating to enforcing a one-year limit on advance rent, and wants tenants and agents to use the state's online registration platform.
President Hussein Mwinyi says every public housing estate built after the 1964 revolution will be replaced, with the newly launched 209-unit Saateni scheme presented as the template.
A two-bedroom ground-floor unit at Oasis at Steyn City will go under the hammer on 17 November with a R1.9 million reserve after its owner accumulated R157,707 in rates and levy arrears, according to the Private Property listing.