Kenya’s Home Afrika Set to Raise Cash With Two Planned REITs
Home Afrika Ltd., Kenya’s only publicly traded property developer, plans to raise as much as 2 billion shillings ($22.8 million) selling shares in a new real estate investment trust.
The REIT will be based on Migaa, a housing project on 774 acres (313 hectares) in Kiambu county near Nairobi, Home Afrika director Mbugua Kamau told reporters in the Kenyan capital today. NIC Capital, based in Nairobi, has been chosen as adviser, he said.
“We are also planning a second REIT centered on our low-cost housing program,” Kamau said.
That REIT will be based on a 1,000-acre project dubbed Kikwetu in Machakos county, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Nairobi, Kamau said.