Homes, land price boom in Nairobi outskirts ends

Residents of Ruaka town, Kiambu County living next to the southern bypass that is under construction on April 6, 2021.

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A decades-long property boom on the outskirts of Nairobi, including Kiambu, Kitengela and Ngong, is coming to an end as home prices drop and land costs soften.

HassConsult, a property agency which compiles a quarterly property index, says that house prices in the satellite towns have dropped in the past two quarters to June, while land cost grew 1.4 percent — the slowest in eight years.

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