Karen is most affordable high end suburb

Nairobi’s Karen suburb offers the lowest price for an acre of land among high-end estates, a new real estate report has shown. With an average price per acre of land in Karen going for Sh52 million against a market average of Sh87 million for an acre, it offers prospective land buyers the best bet for an address in some of Kenya’s high end estates, says Cytonn Investments’ latest report released this week. Karen, according to the new study, recorded the highest increase in price or value of asset at 12.2 per cent since 2011 in low rise residential suburbs, against a market average of 4.5 per cent. Even then, Cytonn shows that the Karen suburb, attracts the fairest asking prices for land now despite prices have risen over the years with an acre in going for Sh52 million up from Sh25 million in 2011. Land in Nairobi’s reclusive Spring Valley is the most expensive followed by Nyari, an estate located along Limuru Road and which borders Muthaiga and Runda. In Ridgeways an acre goes for Sh68 million, Spring Valley (Sh154 million), Kitisuru (Sh70 million), Runda (Sh68 million), and Nyari (Sh109 million). Six years ago, an acre of land in Ridgeways…