Do you know that all the planned old middle income estates like buru buru, south C, mugoya, langata, onyonka, uhuru gardens, ngeno etc have houses that are built on 20x70, 30x60 or 30x70 plots? (you can confirm measurements on google earth)

Therefore anyone buying a "huge" 40x80 or 50x100 plot in the city and surroundings to build a home should be respected, not being mocked for buying tuplotis.

Very nice pic! I am partial to bougainvillea overflowing a stone wall nyweeee
Who is the wise man or woman?
The one who is self sufficient and owns their piece of the earth.
Co-owning in cramped apartments hata kama ni Riverside or Lavington is not the same thing. You are tied to your neighbour ferras for life!
Mara oooo service charge; who paid and did not pay. Then there is always those three or four apartments that go "on strike" and refuse to pay service charge. What will you do to make them pay - nada. Pretty soon security company etc are complaining bills are overdue. Then the NWSC guys come and block your sewer line saying there are debts years old that have not been collectively paid. Then when you try to sell the other owners refuse to consent until all outstanding disputes are resolves (which means never). Uko taabani at this point baba.
Compare with ordinary Joe or Jill with his or her tu 1/8th
1. It is affordable
2. They are 100% in control of their destiny
3. Good fences, preferably electrified above the wall make for very good neighbours
4. It is most likely freehold and so is easy as pie to buy and sell
5. Sense of freedom and pride in ownership. Nothing beats coming home to your cozy home humo humo ndani..and you owe nobody even a single ndururu on it
6. You can get creative. Build a crazy huge underground tank for 100,000 rainwater litres, or an armed bunker in case things go south in terms of civil strife
7. A proper 1/8th is quite huge for enough greeneries to be planted
8. Resale value is very high because these type of properties on these plotis are in high demand compared to a 30 room mansion on 5 acres on which 99% of the market is priced out
9. Most people with huge plotis (1 acres+) do not even know what do with them. This is why we always hear people asking for ideas on how to do telephone farming on such plots year in year out. Too much land and too little time/knowledge on how to optimize that land.

Ni hayo maoni yangu tu

An Eighth is a very adequate space for 99.5% of Kenyans for housing. Even if its tens of miles away, very interesting projects can be done on them.

In one 40X80 (less than an eight BTW), i have;

i. a 22,000 liters water tank (Masonry and Polyethene Lined)
ii. A wooden frame Greenhouse (with a roof FYI)
iii. A 10 Pigs sty
iv. A 15X10 raised Farmhand house with the "basement/crawl space" as the store

FYI, i harvest rain water from all the roofs and have a 40ft hand dug well.

If you have an idle eighth somewhere you don't plan to build a house in the near future, do some agricultural thing with it. e.g. Fish Tanks, Pig Sties, Zero graze beef cattles/goats/sheeps, greenhouse, mushrooms or even insurance salvage cars storage yard and sell spares.

@dunkang,how do you deal with sewage?

People in those estates enjoy the same or better floor space because their houses are maisonettes, utilizing the vertical space as well.

Better concept is to buy a home without buying land ie Apartment.

This is a no-brainer to the wise, papa. Only stubborn, delusional or naive pipo cannot see the sublime wisdom of this. Building a house at cost rather than paying market rates. This is why DC is the future because it is ground zero of this beautiful activity as HassConsult reports have shown.

Alma is just a talker. He has not adduced even a scintilla of evidence to show that I am "wrong 90% of the time" I hope he is not your hero and idol hapa Wazoo

Exactly, if you are buying an apartment or a floor of office space, there is no transaction for land. Land is communally owned by all.

My friend you are going to get insults for this post. How dare you? We the people of DC do not need architects, Quantity Surveyors, contractors and Engineers. We have been bulding houses since time immemorial. In fact bulding housing has always been the work of our womenfolk.