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Kiambu, Kisumu record highest land price jump

Kenya Urban Roads Authority official John Mwatu (left) and James Macharia, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, during a tour of the link roads under construction in Ruaka, Kiambu and Westlands in Nairobi last October. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG

By  JAMES KARIUKI  &  GEOFFREY IRUNGU

Land prices rose at the fastest rates in Kiambu over the past five years, making the county, west side of Nairobi, the best place to own property in Kenya.

The cost of land in the lakeside city of Kisumu also gathered pace in the same period to record the biggest jump in the past one year, according to newly released industry data.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.

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