@Mugundsdude ....we really ought to continue investing and buying up strategically placed plots. You remember a few weeks ago I shared with everyone Baba Jimmy's story and how that 5 acres is now worth 130million? Dustbowl is the future ndugu!
I was doing some math yesterday and realized even a ka one-eight plot in Ruiru Murera I saw online going for just 600k today will be worth 4.75 Million in 10 years!! That's using the 23% average annual appreciation rate that has been the appreciation rate for several decades now in the towns surrounding Nairobi.

A kenyan friend bought a 1/3 acre of land in Embu a few years ago. I forget the exact year but ilikua juzi tu tukikunywa fobe nayeye...i would say it's 2011 apo. I've seen the plot, it's flat and 2nd from the main tarmac road...less than 10 minutes from Embu town. He paid 850k back then ...i was shocked last week when he told me they're now going for 5 Million. I love this success stories man ...real estate/land is truly, truly, truuuly where it's at!

Niko na buloti huko thika. Karibu na some proposed golf course by guys calling themselves Kamuthi coop. Shida ni title hazijatoka. Zimefika ngapi sasa niuze?

Reason why Ngong has been punching below its weight in the past is rumoured to be politics associated with the late professor. most changes e.g. most banks (except barclays and post bank zimekuja recently) have been in last 6 years:
1. Stage funded by World bank (completed) - ease congestion
2. Market funded by World bank (significant progress) - ease congestion in CBD
3. SGR could improve things but mahali wanajenga station (em' bul bul) may be a challenge + Hope the SGR will "connect" to railways as an option.
4. Some people who bought Ngong (zambia, vet, olepolos, hilltop areas) wakati ilikuwa kichaka and built family homes are either exiting or redeveloping to apartments (Kunayo hapo Zambia, 1/4 going for about 35M).


Limitations to expansion:
1) Expansive Land opposite zambia (vet - Ngong to areas towards kibiku) ni ya ministry of agriculture - used to be a demostration farm . Unless it is grabbed
2. Ngong forest - neighbouring embul bul and oloolua areas
3. Camp for training kdf and GSU - huko Kibiko
4. Sewerage - land set aside (near cemetery) converted to a slum so the 'river' hapo zambia (near Rev Njoya's place) is sewage.

Either we got this info from same source (ubeya), or it is indeed true.
It is said that, if anyone started developing a business complex or an apartment around Ngong or Rongai, ati he would receive a delegation from 'Prof' warning that he should stop developing or else face unspecified consequencies.

I do not know if it true or not because the delegation never approached me.

The Prof has a residence in Kiserian but its a disgrace that it was not tarmarked,despite him being #2 for more than a decade. Neighbors says the guy was soo mean that at some point in time, the 'planned' insecurity shot up until it was realised the insecurity was from GSU,designed to force neighbors to sell their land to him.

By the way this is very very true after DECADES of him being the ngong face he did LITTLE TO NOTHING.The main road from NGONG MARKET going into ollolua has been horrible all his years up to the time he was voted out.I remember at some point residents got FED UP and just voted him out and that's when face of ngong started changing .Actually I remember residents refusing to let him jump the line during the mlolongo system of voting ....asking him to tow the line like everybody else ...anger I think

It is true...Prof did very little just grabbed and grabbed with curtels with minimal to no development and intimidation that really depressed the growth of ngong matasya oloolua kibiku and it's environs.Thank God it's picking up