Service charge is used to for maintaining common areas and facilities. If you live in a block of apartments and engage security and garbage collection companies collectively, then service charge goes to pay for these, whether you are living there as a tenant or owner. The big problem in Nairobi is that management companies sometimes take advantage of this and also that residents are sometimes not committed to meeting and discussing such issues so that service charge rates can be reasonable.

Having said that, I think that Casa Mia service charge fee is very suspect unless it was a typo and it was supposed to be 2,200. 22K is for high-end areas like Riverside & Upperhill which commonly have high-end tenants for serviced apartments requiring higher levels of security facilities, servicing of lifts, etc.

me believes after a developer develops houses and sells all of them, they should hand everything to the buyers who will sit down put in place a management committee, calculate the expenses required to maintain the estate then come with a reasonable service charge per resident. hii mambo kuuzia watu nyumba then you continue being their manager mimi apana taka

But the developer owns the land and has the title deed and has only given you a sublease. In essence you are his tenant.

where is that ? in malaa ? on average even in ruai town that would be on the higher side, I have not gone past Joska of late, so maybe that's the case - but I really hope you are giving correct info.

Woi!!! If you bought an apartment and the developer still owns the land, you were just shafted!!!

The developer should form a company which owns the land and if there are 40 units for example, the company should have 40 shares. For each house you buy, you get one share in the company. That way, the home owners collectively own the land. When you sell your house, you should sell it together with your share!!

Hii ingine yote ni wizi na slavery of the highest order!!!