Forget
about the much hyped multi-million housing units in high rise apartments. There
is a new entrant in the market who is breathing a breath of affordability while
keeping the quality of the housing units way above the market standard.
Conventional
real estate moguls in Kenya are being given a run for their money. In Kilifi, Kshs. 800,000 house units are a unique masterpiece of how the real estate sector can
still offer state-of-the art houses at below Kshs. 1 million.
Description of the Kshs.
800,000 House
Each
of the houses in Kilifi that are going at this highly affordable rate has a 2
bed rooms, a spacious sitting room. The master bed room has its own toilet and
bathroom. The toilet has a modern-day luxurious cistern and the wall is
decorated with beautiful ceramic tiles.
The
cost of each house is ridiculously affordable because the company that constructed
the houses used interlocking building blocks. The low cost of these interlocking building blocks is
what has kept the total cost of construction very low and hence little cost has
to be passed over to the customer.
The
company that is behind all this development is called Kenya Housing project.
The good thing about this company is that it is planning to expand to other
counties and offer their superb houses at the same affordable price.
The
lesson that one can learn from this housing company is that the cost of
constructing a house in Kenya can be kept at a minimum through the use of
interlocking building blocks technology.