Month: September 2014
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Multi storeyed Earthbag houses.
Earthbag houses have the ability to significantly reduce the cost of construction for decent shelters in Kenya. They have thick walls which take up floor space. To make maximum utility out of a small restricted space, earthbag buildings can be storeyed into 2 levels. This building, designed by MMA Architects of South Africa, has 2…
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Low cost construction for Student Hostels in Kenya. A4architect.
Student hostels are a profitable method of investing in Kenyan real estate. In towns like Ongata Rongai, where there is proximity to Multimedia University, Catholic University, Adventist University and Nazarene University, demand for student hostel is quite high . The hostels charge around kes 10,000 per person, sharing a single room with 2 or 3…
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A4architect Sand Bag houses. A low cost solution to housing in Kenya.
Sand Bag houses are buildings with walls made of sand bags. Sand bags are gunny bags/gunias that are filled inside with soil of any type and stacked high up to form a wall. This offers a good method of walling a house in areas where there are no quarry stones nearby . Any type of…
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Kenyatta Avenue. 100 years ago
100 years ago. Kenyatta avenue now. Investors who could foresee into the future and speculate on the land are now laughing all the way to the bank with an acre costing nearly kes 1 billion along the same road. Map of Nairobi 100 years ago. As long as the world’s population will keep increasing, demand…
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56 acres for sale Karen near Bomas of Kenya
Price guide kes 40m per acre. 56 acres karen
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Investing in Kenyan Real Estate using prefab buildings.
Investing in Kenyan real estate requires that investors think out of the box to make profits. Land cost around Nairobi continue to appreciate , making it quite costly to own. Lease solution. The solution to this lies in leasing land instead of buying. The standard lease of 5 years 3 months is good enough. A…
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Investing in Kenyan Real Estate through Sectional Titles.
The easiest form of real estate investment in Kenya is through buying land and letting it appreciate. Kenyan laws allow for this unlike USA, South Africa, Europe or Asian laws which somehow discourage investment through speculation by taxing such profits. With land laws encouraging this, land in Kenya around urban centers has become scarce and…
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Ukraine: Article “Update On Foreign Investment In Ukrainian Agricultural Land”
Last Updated: 23 May 2013 Article by Galina Khmarksaya Frishberg & Partners The moratorium on alienation of Ukrainian farm land has long prevented meaningful foreign investment into the Ukrainian agricultural sector. To somehow obtain access to agricultural land, instead of outright ownership foreign investors had to register Ukrainian companies that entered into lease agreements with…