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Benjamin Onigbinde, chief executive of Sigvent Property Trust and convener of Housing First, says Nigeria's target of 200 housing units per local government area will not be met without harmonised federal and state policies on land, approvals and mortgages.
Growthpoint Properties has started work on the last vacant stand at its Growthpoint Industrial Estate in Gauteng, building a purpose-designed facility for logistics tenant DPD Laser on a seven-year lease.
Morocco has named Samir Belfkih as Minister of National Territorial Planning, Urban Development, Housing and City Policy, and government spokesperson, in the new government led by Fatima Zahra El Mansouri.
FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation, has launched a Ghana chapter to link the country's property industry to a global network of professionals and investors, with JL Properties founder Dr James Condua Orleans-Lindsay as founding president.
Kenya's Auditor-General has found that buildings and land bought by the Central Bank of Kenya were valued below their acquisition and construction cost, pointing to a Sh466.5 million loss on the bank's investment properties.
A Tanzanian parliamentary committee has urged the government to set up a dedicated land bank to speed up housing delivery for public servants, as Watumishi Housing Investments pursues 739 units in the 2026/27 financial year.
About 150 farmworkers marched to Parliament in Cape Town calling on Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson to release public land for housing and redistribution. Farmworker organisations say evictions are rising and tenure insecurity is worsening living conditions.
A House of Representatives committee has ordered an immediate stop to development on a disputed parcel in Ngor Okpala, Imo State, and directed that armed men allegedly in the area be disarmed. The petition alleges the illegal acquisition of more than 2,500 hectares of community land.
Three officials at Kampala's Ministry Zonal Office and a land dealer have been remanded until October 29 over the alleged fraudulent transfer of a half-acre plot in Munyonyo. Investigators say a special certificate of title was obtained using forged documents.