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Kenyan court ruling highlights legal safeguards against unauthorised land transfers

A Kenyan court has underlined the steps landowners can take to protect property, including lodging a caution or restriction, after a family found a deceased relative's land had been registered in another person's name.

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Kenyan court cancels Nakuru land title transferred after owner's death

The Environment and Land Court in Nakuru has cancelled a land title after finding the register was opened two days after the owner died and another person was registered as proprietor 11 years later, ordering the parcel returned to the deceased's estate.

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Consumer-durable loans overtake property credit at Kenyan banks

Bank lending for cars, appliances and electronics has passed Sh500 billion and moved ahead of real estate credit for the first time, CBK data shows, as lenders turn more cautious on property.

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Kajiado demands KSh13bn from Tata Chemicals over Magadi land rates

Kajiado Governor Joseph Ole Lenku says Tata Chemicals Magadi owes KSh13 billion in land rates and should return part of its 200,000-plus acre holding to the Maasai community.

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Father and son killed as perimeter wall collapses onto their Mombasa home

A 42-year-old man and his 11-year-old son died when a wall belonging to a logistics firm collapsed onto their house in Kambodia, Jomvu, on the outskirts of Mombasa, early on Monday.

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Kenya's Sh7.28bn diplomatic property programme lags as costs overrun, watchdog finds

The Controller of Budget says Kenya has committed Sh7.28 billion to embassy and diplomatic property projects abroad, but several renovations are years behind schedule and one has cost more than its original budget.

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Muturi warns against plan to convert 301,330-acre Galana Kulalu project into real estate

Former Attorney General Justin Muturi has warned against alleged plans to subdivide and convert part of the 301,330-acre Galana Kulalu agricultural project in Tana River into private real-estate holdings, saying the land must remain a strategic national asset.

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Kisumu lines up 6,487 affordable housing units, four markets and 4,400 student beds

Kisumu County is preparing 6,487 affordable housing units across eight projects alongside four Economic Stimulus Programme markets and five student-hostel schemes with a combined 4,400 beds.

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Kenya's REIT market faces calls to widen asset rules and cut the free-float threshold

A lawyer at the AmCham Kenya 2026 Business Summit proposed widening the definition of eligible real estate to include telco towers and data centres, and lowering the 25% free-float requirement that sponsors must meet.