Want to build? Try Nairobi, Dar; Kigali too costly

Hass Petroleum Group, one of the world’s largest construction companies is currently developing Hass Towers, Africa’s tallest building, in Nairobi at a cost of about $200 million. PHOTO | FILE

Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are among the five cheapest cities in the world to develop property, notes a new report by global construction and project management consultancy firm Turner & Townsend.

Construction works will cost the least in Nairobi while Dar is the fifth cheapest, among 43 key cities surveyed.