They are not the worst. Quarter acre gated. Some landscaping. Chinese crap very visible. The grounds appear to be well planned and well drained. Lots of light and fresh air. Fit for the young upward mobile Kenyans.
This is the sort of house a fellow like sambamba who really wants to fit in and look rich would go broke trying to mortgage just so he lives next to so and so. But is it worth a staggering kshs. 120 million?
Properties in Kenya are generally inflated, so this is no surprise. I even visited Thika Greens recently, and to see those houses on the golf course going for 70M, was just ridiculous, if 1/4 an acre of land there goes for 5.5M.
Developers are just out to make a killing out of gullible Kenyans.
That is a very nice house in my opinion. A little too much glass, but otherwise very beautiful architecture and planning. This is something I would buy if I was a birrionea with Arror and Kimwarer money (after serious price negotiations because I still don’t think it is worth $1.2M).
What is the name of the project BTW juu hiyo ghasia hata haijataja?
I also wonder how much it would rent for because such houses are usually cheaper to rent than to own. For $1.2M and assuming sio pesa ya wizi ni pesa umefanyia kazi, you can get $12k in rent and then rent this house for $2500-$3000 and pocket the difference.
In the master bedroom of house number 1 the clothes wardrobes are in the bathroom which makes no sense at all considering the massive outdoor verandah/balcony which will be rarely used and is not even shaded.
These clothes stored in this wardrobe I guarantee you zitapata mould. We are talking about very expensive suits, garments and jewellery here. Then the sq shower drain is already rusty. The paint is fading. The doors are cheap. These are the things you look at.
The swimming pool is same level as the lawn which is a yuuge mistake in this case. Nyasi ikikatwa, vumbi, dirty brown rain water ndani ndani ndani.
I’m not a construction genius. I’m just a guy in the streets who thinks this is a good house even if it probably isn’t worth the $1.2M. I would certainly rent it for $2,500 if I had the money and the need for such a big house.
These so called expatriates live in tiny apartments back home in London or new York but wakifika Kenya they pretend they were living in palaces like lords back home.
You missed the point. Nasema with that $1.2 million naingia dusty suburbs na kupandisha flats mbili zitaleta $12k a month. Sasa hiyo $12k ndiyo nalipa nayo $2500-$3000 a month as a tenant in that house. Buying the house with hard-earned money you have slaved for is a dumb decision.
Whoever did landscaping for them arudishe pesa .
Design wamejaribu but wameangusha kwa fittings… Look at this supposed kitchen for a million dollar house… Hata ya ushago kwetu looks better [ATTACH=full]348616[/ATTACH]
I agree that the house is poorly designed. Hiyo walk-in wardrobe in the bathroom will become moldy. The bedrooms and bathrooms are very tiny for such a house. Alot of internal space has been taken up by corridors. The 2 kitchens downstairs don’t make sense. The balcony to the master bedroom should be private and not accessible from another room. The huge amounts of glass are bound to make the house very cold at night and very hot during the day due to the greenhouse effect.
Looks like someone grabbed 20 acres of ololua forest - nimepima on google earth. Also according to the official Ololua forest map below, the houses are on forest land. Would be very risky to sink your 120m kwa forest land.