Residential Projects
Habitat Heights Project Underway in Machakos
The project is set for completion in July 2024.
Construction is well underway for an 8,828-unit mixed-use development in Machakos County, with the seven-phase project set for completion in July 2024.
Dubbed Habitat Heights, the project that sits on 77.75 acres in Lukenya Hills is the brainchild of Habitat Heights Private Ltd., in partnership with Singapura Developers, a Singaporean realtor, and Habitat Housing Co-operative Society.
The development land is owned by the UN-Habitat and had been reserved for a UN employees’ housing scheme, but Kenya signed a memorandum with the UN to release the land for use for the state-backed affordable housing scheme.
Habitat Heights, whose ground-breaking event was held in December 2019, will host studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units on 26 blocks of 16 to 20 floors.
These include 324 studio units (22 sqm), 252 studio units (28 sqm), 972 one-bedroom units (44 sqm), 2,912 two-bedroom units (75 sqm), and 4,368 three-bedroom units (95 sqm).
A total of 60 commercial shops will be built on the ground floor of the tallest blocks of apartments. There will also 2 blocks of strata-landed club.
Habitat Heights will have an underground parking of 4,974 cars and open parking with the capacity to hold 2,532 vehicles.
The prices for the houses were initially set at Sh3.5 million (one-bedroom), Sh4.8 million (two-bedroom), and Sh5.8 million (three-bedroom).
Promising market
Singapura Developers sees Kenya as a great market for developments such as Habitat Heights thanks to its fast-expanding population of middle-income earners.
“We see Kenya as a big market based on the growing middle class and also a high number of expatriates,” said Singapura’s chief investments officer Mahesh SK.
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Habitat Heights is one of the products of the State-backed affordable housing programme, which seeks to build 500,000 homes countrywide in five years.
The scheme has attracted a host of foreign construction giants, including China State Construction Engineering – which is putting up several high-rises in Nairobi.
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