A closer look at Rule 1 from Eight Rules for Buying Property in Nairobi. There's a version of Nairobi real estate folklore that goes something like this: a new road gets announced, land prices along its path triple, and anyone who bought early gets rich. It's
You might drive past Gigiri and still have no idea that the collection of buildings bordering Karura Forest is one of only four major United Nations headquarters in the world, and the only one on the African continent. New York, Geneva, and Vienna get most of the global attention. Nairobi&
Nairobi's property market rewards patience and punishes assumptions. Prices in the city's premium suburbs have both surged and corrected sharply within the same two years, and the difference between a good investment and a costly mistake usually comes down to which rules a buyer actually verified
It is ten in the morning on a weekend in Nairobi, and a room somewhere off Waiyaki Way is full. Amapiano plays loud enough to feel through the floor but not so loud that conversation requires shouting. Someone is sketching in a corner. A card game is underway on a
Nairobi holds one of only four major UN headquarters in the world, alongside New York, Geneva, and Vienna. For anyone in this city building a career toward international development, diplomacy, or humanitarian work, that proximity is a genuine advantage. It also means a lot of people are chasing the same
There was a time, not so long ago, when Nairobi's relationship with global trade ran in one direction. Container ships arrived. Goods got unloaded, distributed, sold. The city was a destination, a market to be reached rather than a place where anything actually got decided. That framing is
Westlands looks, on the surface, like any other busy Nairobi suburb: office towers, malls, traffic on Waiyaki Way, a dense strip of restaurants and bars that fills up on Friday nights. What's harder to see from street level is the machinery underneath it, the actual channels through which
For a long time, the story of Nairobi was told from the outside in. It was the gateway to safari, a stopover before the plains, a city defined by what surrounded it rather than what happened within it. That story is no longer accurate, and increasingly, it is no longer
