Wukan,
For a self-confessed seasoned investor in studio apartments you never cease to amaze me. I would love to sell to you because you believe everything you hear or are told and run with it! Of course at under 3m these things will fly like hot cakes to investors/speculators. But as far as renting them for a much vaunted 20k (before service charge) . Those are just hot air promises and rosy projections to make you buy quick. Just like greenhouse scams, if they could make that much per unit and under 100% occupancy, why would they sell to you? You may find that these things are 90% vacant once they come on tap, even more vacant than the Kileleshwa and Kilimani apartments you speak of. Think about it..which student in their right mind going to Strathmore will want to stay there? The richkids have their standards, the middle class kids stay home with mama, the sufferers go for 5k bedsitters that litter this town and beyond. Would YOU yourself want to live in that matchbox sized studio and pay 25k (service charge inclusive) per month? Case closed.

25k is only 833 per day, you really don't get this concept of hotel living. When you are pushing crazy hours in this city chasing mulla you only spend like 9-6 in your house. This studio living is not for everyone but trust me there is a market for it.

Mvuli Suites will proove you wrong about Nairobi West

Slightly better show this week.

On strategic land investment; jameni you mean people are still buying property from Diamond Property Merchants? That's like someone saying they are planning to buy land from PRC which is well known for what it does!

Very smart lady.
Bought plot in Ruiru Murera (looks like a 40*80) in 2013, took no loans, saved up, started building in 2015, built to the slab, finished the ground floor and moved in! With the rent saved, finished the top floor and voila, she owns a beautiful home rent free! And instead of living in an estate with its mingi mingi rules and service charge disputes, she is able to keep chickens for extra income and her boys are able to enjoy dogs running around the place. I could watch storos like these all day! This is the Kenyan dream!

If I could have advised her I would have said buy in DC (dustbowl county) where for the same price you get a much bigger plot and more room for you and your boys to enjoy. Nevertheless she has done very well for herself. Kenyans, this is the way to go. Stop crying that life is tough and thinking you need "big loans" or "massive savings" to do things in this here our beautiful country. Kila kitu ni pole pole tu. If you are starting out with zero but have a source of income, plots are going for a song these days if you pay in installments. After a few years your plot is paid for. Then do what this lady did. Might take you longer depending on your income, but you will get there too. And it does not have to be a fancy maisonette like hers. It could be a beautiful bungalow which is way cheaper. A middle class Kenyan currently renting who spends loads of money on nyama choma and whisky surely can do this.

On a side note isn't it funny how most human beings are never content? After doing all this through sweat, patience and hard work, the lady says she now wants something else with a pool etc . Better to be content and enjoy what you have fully! Life is not a race to gather assets, when God blesses you with whatever you have jienjoy it tu bila always craving more!

Karibu Sana.

This past week's journey was very boring. No house shown, we were not told what area the house was in, hata even inside the house we saw nothing but the sofa.. just story mingi like the Bahati one. Hope part 2 of it will be better.

OAN Wukan check out beautiful Boston Estate in DC at minute 46:47. You might be the last person left renting in Nairobi by the time all the dust literally settles - pun fully intended - at this rate. Everybody and they mama are moving here.

Eish eish eish But do you say
And do you own the house though. Sema ukweli

If you say so, bradza.
So in other words what you are telling us is that you are very lazy and could do zero for yourself so you waited for mama na papa to kick the bucket so you could enjoy their sweat. Very funny!
BTW others too have "old money" in their family but they do not proudly brag about it hapa. They only talk about their own sweat! No wonder you do not want to come to DC. Hujajua jasho

For sense of humour I give you A+