The Kenya Real Estate Industry Review 2026
Built to last? What the public record shows, and does not yet show, about Kenya’s built environment in 2026.
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How Kenya’s property market is financed, built, delivered and priced.
The Preview Edition brings together what can be established from publicly available evidence: official statistics, government and parliamentary records, institutional disclosures and published industry research. It separates what has been announced from what has been financed, what is under construction from what is operational, and what a published figure actually measures.
- Data
Kenya at a Glance
Eighteen official figures that frame Kenya’s built environment in 2026.
- 01
The Mortgage That Never Arrived
Kenya ended 2025 with 30,762 residential mortgage loans, even as borrowing costs fell.
- 02
The Infrastructure Status Ladder
Eight of Kenya’s most talked-about projects, placed on a six-step ladder using the public record.
- 03
What Do Kenya’s Affordable Housing Numbers Actually Tell Us?
Official counts of completed affordable homes range from under 2,000 to more than 13,000. A guide to reading them.
- 04
Why Is It So Difficult to Know What Land Actually Sells For?
Kenya has more property price data than ever. Almost none of it records what a buyer actually paid for land.
- 05
Built to Last? 2026 So Far
Three tests of whether what Kenya is building will last: paid for, finished, measured.
The question is not simply how much Kenya is building. It is what is being delivered, what it costs, who can access it, and whether it will last.
From the Editor’s Note by Victor Maina Ngare, Founder, Beacon Nest
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