Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our Property Financing and Mortgages series. See also our guides on mortgage versus cash purchase for first-time buyers and how much money you need to buy a house in Nairobi. For most Kenyans buying property, a mortgage is not just one option among many. It is the primary tool that makes ownership possible. Yet the landscape of mortgage...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how long it takes to complete a property purchase in Kenya and how to check if a property title deed is genuine. Completing a property purchase in Kenya is a significant achievement. But many first-time buyers reach the end of the transaction without a clear picture of what they should...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on questions you should ask before buying a house and the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya. One of the most common frustrations among first-time property buyers in Kenya is discovering that the process takes far longer than they expected. People plan to be in their...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how to check if a property title deed is genuine and common mistakes first-time property buyers make. Most property buyers in Kenya spend more time researching a television purchase than they do interrogating the details of a home they are about to commit millions of shillings to. The...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya and common mistakes first-time property buyers make. Title deed fraud is one of the most serious risks in the Kenyan property market. Buyers have lost millions of shillings purchasing land and apartments that turned out to be...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how much money you need to buy a house in Nairobi and the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya. Buying property for the first time is one of the most significant financial decisions most Kenyans will ever make. It is also one of the most error-prone. The mistakes...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how much money you need to buy a house in Nairobi and the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya. When you are buying your first home in Kenya, very few decisions carry as much weight as how you plan to pay for it. Should you take a mortgage and spread payments over...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how much money you need to buy a house in Nairobi and hidden costs when buying property in Kenya. There is a specific kind of financial stress that arrives in the first year of apartment ownership in Nairobi, and it is almost entirely predictable and almost entirely avoidable. It is the...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on how much money you need to buy a house in Nairobi and the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya. Every year, Kenyan property buyers reach the completion stage of a transaction and discover that they do not have enough money to proceed. Not because the property price...

Part of our Complete Guide to Buying Property in Kenya and our First-Time Home Buyer series. See also our guides on the step-by-step process of buying your first home in Kenya and hidden costs when buying property in Kenya. The most common reason first-time buyers in Nairobi stall or fail at the final stages of a property purchase is not that they chose the wrong property or picked the wrong location....