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Mushrooming real estate firms cash in on land-owning craze

When Urithi Housing Cooperative clients protested over delays to complete housing units in Joska paid for in 2016. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

A Facebook user recently lamented the loss of his hard-earned millions of shillings to a land-selling agent in Nairobi, but ultimately blamed himself for swallowing a rather obvious bait.

The land-selling company, one of the many mushrooming in the city, had just seen angry clients revolt and demand accountability for the money they had deposited without any signs of the off-plan houses they were paying for.

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