Not In Real Estate

We've had a robust, healthy, debate as country on what is now the Finance Act 2023. Be it the housing levy or the taxation on the imported construction material or even the increased taxation on clinker importation, its been robust. But with now the bill passed into an act, I look at the expected impact of this Act to the construction sector.

Commercial Real Estate investments are those investments done with sole purpose of business. What are the various strategies you can use to enter this market? We discuss them here.

Everyone seems to be complaining; a poor-quality house, overbudgeted house, cracking house or even no house for those living in the diaspora. What is the problem? I discuss the common mistakes we make while building back in the villages.

My peremptory rule for any good property investment is that; any property you buy must earn you an annual rent that is 10% of its value or cost. In this episode, I explore how you can use this rule, rental yield and payback period calculations to determine a good property to invest in.

More often than not, most real estate developers jump into real estate development with half the information, in most cases with minimal market and financial information. However hard you may think of it, people enter real estate development with hearsay. The number of stalled, unsold or unrented properties has augmented in the past few years. In this episode, we discuss the imperativeness of undertaking the feasibility study and comparative market analysis (CMA).

For the second administration running, the Kenyan government has centralized provision of affordable housing as a key agenda. What must they do to ensure it succeeds this time? We discuss...

The need to successfully manage a project is no longer a luxury -  it is a necessity. In this episode I discuss the critical role a Project Manager plays in the  context of 21st Century built environment challenges. 

Due diligence on land is no longer doing just a search at land registry office. In this episode I discuss four ways to efficaciously carry out due diligence on any land.

Building collapses have become synonymous with our construction and real estate industry - it is an unfortunate expected phenomenon. We are becoming numb to it. But why are building collapsing unabatedly? And why do we seem to have given up? This episode interrogates the deep contributors to building collapses.

In this episode we discuss how to interrogate the last three of the 7 critical activities to undertake before buying a house off -plan, or nay house for that matter. Watch the previous episodes on the first four if you missed it.