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Blomberg news: House prices in nairobi drop 2.2%
mwana
#1 Posted : Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:44:00 PM
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According to bloomberg.com,house prices in Nairobi city have dropped 2.2% this last quarter.

http://www.bloomberg.com...16&sid=apocMzOptn8s
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#2 Posted : Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:37:00 PM
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KulaRaha
#3 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 4:48:00 AM
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That means a house worth 5M dropped by 110k?

get serious...thats not a price drop!


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#4 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 5:34:00 AM
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I agree with @Kula. The average price of the houses they reviewed dropped from 20.4M to 19.9M. A real bargain,huh? Would be good for buyers if this becomes a trend though.
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#5 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 5:54:00 AM
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The drop is way more than that...after all arent these guys the same ones who overvalue properties.I dont expect them to shoot themselves on the foot proclaiming house prices have drastically fallen.The more important fact is that there is an over supply of high end apartments.Though the property moguls are refusing to lower the prices but for how long?
The utimate goal of investing is to buy low sell high;if we re-write this core equation in psychology terms it becomes buy fear sell greed.
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#6 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 6:20:00 AM
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It is very important to put matters in perspective. Whilst I am not privy to this index by Hass Consult,ideally,such indices seek to perform two main functions.One,to inform the investing public(Property developers et al) and two,to inform the consumers,of the short term trends in the market. Having said that,let me hasten to point out that market sentiment in the said segment is supportive of this.This has been an area of slow growth.This loosely interpreted means a drop in prices.Note that price and value of property are two different entities,even though related.It would be interesting to see this report.

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#7 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 6:28:00 AM
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I think the index is not representative (for various reasons). How many people do you know live in a 20mn house? These houses @ 20mn must be in the areas where 99.999% of Kenyans can't afford to live!

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#8 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 6:41:00 AM
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That drop is significant for 3 months.....it translate to an annualised fall of 8.8%...this is is quite significant ...isnt it?.....the property bubble will surely burst .....that's inevitable....but good for us .... who dont own an acre...

What really explains an 100% increase in the price of land in less than a year?..pure speculation ....monkey business ...where the buyers of the monkey are left clinging to the monkey when the monkey merchant is long gone......after making his /her cut



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#9 Posted : Friday, October 02, 2009 9:26:00 AM
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Seriously speaking,if the prices went up by five hundred percent in the last three years not based on any fundementals,then two percent drop means nothing to any home buyers.

I have tried looking at the hassconsult website and the prices do not seem have dropped by any penny from last years prices and if anything they are actually still on the upward rise.


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mukwano
#10 Posted : Saturday, October 03, 2009 1:36:00 PM
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I suspect this index was created to slow the decline by encouraging sellers not to panic and reassure buyers that there are still people paying super high prices. I am not sure how much faith one can put in it.
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#11 Posted : Monday, October 05, 2009 7:06:00 AM
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@ mukwana,

you could be right...the index has been manipulated to give a wrong information to the yet to be buyers and sellers....the index is not representative of the rate of price drops across the board,but rather price comparison on a small scale...the fact is the house prices are falling and pretty fast.


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