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It has been 8 months with 4 left to close the year. What is the state of our construction industry here in Kenya?
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Government says they have created over 140k jobs through affordable housing over the last two years. Is this true?
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The Kenyan National Building Code 2024 was launched recently. However, I do not find much that is 'National' about it. Here is my concerns with this code.
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What are the various construction approvals in Kenya? Who is involved and what is the process of obtaining them?
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What to expect in the Construction and Real Estate industry this year. How is the year looking?
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Today, we have normalized the abnormal, cost overruns on projects has become a norm. It is almost a 'criminal offence' to finish a project within the budget. How dare you? Projects are drowning in unbridled careless cost variations that is worse on the public sector. Nairobi is replete with stalled projects due to unabated cost variations. How do you manage to execute a project within the set budget? and is it even possible? I discuss that at length in this podcast.
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Finishing projects within the set timelines has become an expensive luxury in our industry today. Why is it so? Why are we unable to finish projects on time? I explore this extensively in this episode.
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The society has somehow carefully conditioned us to believe that if you don't own a house then you are failure. Home ownership is somehow equated to arrival at the success summit. However, sometimes, renting instead of buying can be the most sensible financial decision. Listen in as we deliberate on this.
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The housing levy has been one of the most debate public issue probably in the last century. The government's intention is to have a 1.5% housing levy on the salaried citizens and use this money to fund the affordable housing agenda. In this episode I interrogate the potential success of this agenda and Levy.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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...
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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.
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