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About us
We'll tell you when a property is a bad buy.
Most agents are paid when you sign. We're built to be useful before that — reading demand, pricing and infrastructure across Nairobi so you know what you're walking into, including when the answer is to walk away.
1,200+
Listings assessed across Nairobi and its satellite towns
18
Submarkets we track pricing and absorption in monthly
1 in 4
Enquiries where we advise a client not to proceed
Why we exist
The listing tells you the price. It doesn't tell you the risk.
A three-bedroom in a well-marketed development can be priced twenty percent above what comparable units in the same block actually closed at last quarter. Nothing in the listing says so. The photographs are excellent either way.
Off-plan makes it sharper. Kenyan buyers commit to projects that stall for years, and by the time that's visible the deposit is gone and the recourse is thin. The warning signs were usually there beforehand — in the developer's completion record, not the brochure.
We started The Realtors Platform because the gap between a good and a bad property decision is rarely about the property. It's about demand, timing, and who else is buying in that area — and none of that appears on a listing page.
What we check
Four questions we answer before we show you anything
CheckWhy it mattersWhat worries us
Absorption
Whether units in that area are actually selling, or listing and sitting. Volume tells you what the asking price won't.
Similar units re-listed at the same price for more than two quarters.
Closed prices
What comparable units transacted at, as opposed to what they were advertised at. The gap between those two numbers is where buyers overpay.
An asking price with no comparable closing anywhere near it.
Infrastructure
What's under construction nearby, who's funding it, and whether the timeline is credible. Roads and trunk services move value more than finishes do.
Pricing that already assumes a road or bypass that hasn't broken ground.
Developer record
For off-plan, the only question that matters: what has this developer completed, on what timeline, and did buyers get what they were promised.
A first project, or completed projects nobody will speak about on record.
Where we work
We'd rather know a few markets properly.
Pricing behaviour in Kilimani has almost nothing in common with Runda. Tracking both well means tracking them separately.
Looking outside these? Ask anyway — we'll refer you rather than guess.
Where we stand
Three positions that cost us business
On aesthetics
A beautiful unit can be a weak asset
Finishes are the easiest thing to upgrade and the least predictive of resale. We look at the block, the road and the absorption rate first, and the kitchen last.
On hot areas
Growth curves have a top
An area that appreciated fast for four years is not automatically a buy in year five. Sometimes the run has already happened and you're paying for it.
On timing
Waiting is often the answer
If the numbers say hold for two quarters, we'll say so — and lose the commission. It's the only version of this job worth doing twice with the same client.
How it works
Three conversations, usually
No pressure to move quickly, and no obligation at any point. Most clients take a few weeks between the first call and a decision.
01
Tell us the brief and the budget
Location, size, timeline, and what the purchase is for — living in, renting out, or holding. Twenty minutes on a call is enough. If your budget doesn't fit the area you have in mind, you'll hear that here rather than after six viewings.
02
We come back with the market position
What's genuinely available in that range, what comparable units have closed at, and which options we'd rule out and why. Where we think the timing is wrong, that's part of the answer.
03
Viewings, then negotiation
We shortlist rather than tour everything, and we handle price negotiation and due-diligence coordination through to transfer — including the searches and developer checks most buyers skip.
Start with a conversation
Bring us the property you're already considering.
Send the listing you've been looking at and we'll tell you what we see in it — pricing, area, developer, the lot. Free, and there's no expectation you buy through us afterwards.
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