The Real Estate sector has over time become a key attraction for investors for Kenya and globally. Kenyans living in the diaspora have often fallen victim to scammers who take advantage of their extended absence. This has left many of them counting losses running into millions of shillings, some in the hands of relatives. Mr. Penial Mugo, a Kenyan living in the USA for over a decade has a different...
Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development has announced plans to go cashless on all transactions across the country and kicked off an exercise to kick the ball rolling. The exercise to roll out a cashless transaction policy in all offices of the State Department for Lands and Physical is progressing well across the country. Teams flagged off from Nairobi on Monday 6th October...
Land is without doubt one of the most emotive issue within the Kenyan society today. This has unfortunately threatened to overshadow its greatest role; the most important factor of production. According to the National Lands Commission, despite 80% of our population relying on agriculture, only 20% of the land mass comprises arable land . This is, to state the least, disappointing for a country that...
The Ministry of Lands has confirmed that land rates payments will no longer be available on e-citizen and has been transferred to the recently unveiled new platform National Land Information Management System (NLIMS), ardhisasa. Land CS Farida Karoney however assures that the transactions, a number of which had not been completed by April 27, 2021 when the new platform was launched have been provided...
Everyone in need of any land transactions at the Nairobi Land Registry is now required to access the services online as the Ministry of Lands is now fully digital in Nairobi. The ministry has now shifted operations onto the new Lands Information Management System (LIMS), a process started in 2018 with an intention to ease management of land records and transactional services. This, according the Lands...