Kitengela Reveals it’s Start of Art Homes. This Will Astonish You

THE HISTORY OF KITENGELA

Kitengela is a plain in Kenya , located south of the capital city  Nairobi. Kitengela is close to Athi River town in machakos county occupying the border line between Machakos county and Kajiado county. However, Kitengela  in itself belongs to Kajiado county in the Previously rift valley province.

HOW IT BEGAN
Kitengela began as a group ranch made up of 18,292 ha and 214 registered members. It was subdivided by the government in 1988 in an effort to  encourage private land ownership.
The subdivisions and sales of the land encouraged a steady,continued development of the area with the human population doubling from 17,347 to 58,167 by 2009.

PROXIMITY TO THE CAPITAL CITY

Kitengela town is located in Kajiado  county, just 30km South of the Kenyan capital city- Nairobi.
Kitengela has an urban population of 8378 people.
Popular neighborhood of the kitengela town include the Maasai Ostrich farm,a fairly popular tourist destination located 7 km off the Namanga highway. It is here where jockeys train for ostrich racing held at the farm on Sundays.
The kitengela game reserve is also a remarkable resource still neighboring kitengela town and very close to the Nairobi national park. Inhabiting here are the impala, Thomson’s gazelles, black rhino, deffasa waterbucks, cheetahs, warthogs, jackals among many. Location Cordinates 1’31’S36′ 51E Time Zone EAT(UTC+3)

THE GROWTH & FUTURE OF KITENGELA

Talk of the fastest growing Nairobi surburbs and Kitengela features on top of the list.
Considered one of the Nairobi’s `bedroom’ the kitengela area has become a favourite of the capital’s middle-class keen on owning a home.
The cosmopolitan nature of kitengela is considered to attract a great deal of property investors and individual land owners.
Unlike other areas in Nairobi during the 2007 post elections violence, kitengela was an exception to the troubles. it was not troubled. This alone has given confidence to real estate investors who to now have shown it through unbeatable developments found in this area.
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) built in this area among others in Kenya has really spelt a boon to the growth of KITENGELA.

A WHILE BACK

  How to draw the picture of the current kitengela a while back is really unbelievable for new dwellers.
Economically, 15 years ago,kitengela residents solely dwelt on livestock and slaughter houses. Not to mention, wildlife roamed the land freely and only the Maasai community reigned the region,just a few non Maasai tribes occupied a small area still adopting to the cultural practices of the majority.

Today, the picture is completely different. Buildings which comprise of maisonettes, bungalows and apartments paint the entire landscape which formerly was a grazing land.

KITENGELA TOWN

The centre of all kitengela residents ,housing  90% of the county’s social and commercial amenities. KITENGELA currently boasts of a great range of supermarket malls, investment companies, banks,Sacco’s,hospitals, universities and high performing academic institutions. We have roughly 10 major bank branches in kitengela. Over 5 popular medical hospitals including, the Aga Khan, Nairobi Women’s Hospital, Shalom and Get rude children hospital are found in kitengela.
Kitengela has witnessed a fast real estate development for the last 10 years. This has been fueled by the current Nairobi’s population upsurge and high cost of owning a home in the capital.

LAND COST TRENDS

Land in kitengela has been readily available and cheaper in cost as compared to Nairobi.
5 years ago a plot of land measuring 50 by 100 ft was going for ksh. 200,000 in kitengela interior places. Ksh. 350,000/= in the town centre. Now the same is fetching ksh. 2,000,000 in the interior areas and  ksh.10,000,000 in the urban area.
Proximity to the new Konza Techno City has triggered high ambitions of the real estate investors and private land buyers in kitengela. Senior investors and developers notably, SIDAIESTATES, OPTIVEN, JAMII BORA among others have found a ground for their investments.
Huge residential estate have changed the entire face of KITENGELA, giving it value and making it a desire for many.