REGIONS
Africa
Africa
Africa Report
Knight Frank's Africa Report provides an overview of the continent's diverse property markets, plus guides to prime rents and yields in the office, retail, industrial and residential sectors.
15 July 2024
Global
Uganda
The residential and prime office markets have been the quickest to recover in Uganda, with demand and lease rates rapidly climbing to pre-Covid levels.
12 July 2024
Global
Niger
Niger is battling with unprecedented domestic political tension and there is a perception that the country’s security position is deteriorating. Despite this, there are pockets of positive activity in the country’s real estate market.
12 July 2024
Global
Kenya
Kenya’s young demographic is sustaining growth in the affordable homes and co-living segments of the residential market. A young population, combined with a strong middle class is also helping the office and retail sectors to recover. Nairobi remains the strategic capital of East Africa and the first-place international investors list as a preferred entry point into Africa.
12 July 2024
Global
Morocco
Pandemic-linked lockdown measures have severely curtailed the performance of Morocco’s real estate market.
12 July 2024
Global
South Africa
2022 looks set to usher in a period of stability and growth for South Africa’s property sector, following Covid-induced challenges during 2020 and 2021.
12 July 2024
Global
Tanzania
Performance across all of Tanzania’s real estate sectors remains sluggish, with oversupply being a key challenge across the board.
12 July 2024
Global
Zimbabwe
Hyperinflation and the depreciation of the Zimbabwean dollar are major hurdles for the country’s real estate market, but some sectors, such as the suburban office market are seeing growth, as are smaller neighbourhood retail centres.
12 July 2024
Economy
Affordability key to unlocking Africa’s housing markets
Continent-wide, residential markets have been in a state of a suspended animation for the better part of two and a half years.
12 July 2024
Investment
Challenges to opening the investment floodgates
Attracting meaningful volumes of institutional capital into Africa continues to prove challenging and recent global macroeconomic events appear to be hampering matters further. Indeed, total cross-border investment in African commercial real estate stood at US$ 274 million in 2021, down 49% from 2020 and 54% lower than 2019 figures.
12 July 2024
Economy
Covid-19 update: The Africa Report
Report editor Tilda Mwai looks at why the main findings of this recently released report hold true despite the impact of Covid-19 on the African economy
05 July 2024
Africa
Exploring potential in Africa's real estate sectors
Despite, economic slowdowns, escalating fuel prices, and currency devaluations, the African real estate market remains a realm of significant untapped potential.
22 November 2023
Offices
Challenges of oversupply and how it's impeding rental growth in African office markets
The African office market faces challenges from oversupply, changing work patterns, and unfavourable economic conditions.
05 July 2023
Africa
The key drivers influencing prime warehousing demand in Africa
There remains a need for top-tier warehouses across Africa, as demand surpasses available supply.
05 July 2023
Africa
Agricultural investing in Africa for profit and community
Focusing on ESG doesn't mean missing out on profits when it comes to global agricultural investments. The Rural Report visits a Knight Frank client in Africa to find out more.
17 May 2023
Africa
The Key Drivers Influencing Prime Warehousing Demand in Africa
There remains a persistent need for top-tier warehouses across Africa, whose demand surpasses available supply
27 March 2023
Africa
The 2023 Commercial Real Estate outlook in Africa
We look forward at future risks, trends and opportunities in the commercial property sector in Africa and what to expect in 2023.
21 December 2022
Africa
Why ‘ESG investing’ in Africa should be part of COP27
Cleaner energy strategy and more investment needed as Africa population set to double by 2050.
09 November 2022
Africa
Africa’s logistics market boosted by rocketing online sales
Africa’s e-commerce market has continued to attract strong investor interest as overall online sales revenues increased by over 28%.
19 November 2021
New Homes
War for talent fuelling new office space demand in Africa’s cities
New office space demand at highest since pandemic as sectors battle to attract the best and brightest with high quality office space.
16 November 2021
Industrial and logistics
Nairobi prime industrial market outperforms in Africa
Nairobi has recorded the highest increase in rents (28%) between 2018 and 2021.
26 October 2021
Africa
Financial services sector driving office market in Nairobi
According to Knight Frank’s Q2 2021 Africa Office Market Dashboard, the share of new office space requirements in Nairobi was dominated by the financial services sector that took up 31% of office space.
26 October 2021
Industrial and logistics
Industrial yields rising in Africa
Industrial assets are the best performing real estate sector across Africa, opening a world of opportunity to investors.
22 October 2021
Prime residential
Africa Prime Residential Market Performance
Despite an overall slowdown in market activity due to the lockdowns imposed throughout the year, we have witnessed a gradual rebound in prime residential sales in majority of the markets and this is expected to continue into 2021.
26 March 2021
Africa
How is the Prime Office Market across Africa performing?
Majority of the markets across Africa are expected to remain tenant favourable throughout 2021 according to our recent H2 2020 Africa Offices Dashboard
26 March 2021
Africa
Covid-19 in Africa: Focus on Southern Africa
With robust mining and manufacturing sectors, Southern African countries are considered the most industrialised in Sub – Saharan Africa. Therefore, the impact on regional economies as a result of Covid-19 has varied depending on the prevalent sectors in each economy. For example, as global economic growth stalls, demand for safe-haven assets such as gold has surged and has greatly benefited gold traders in South Africa. Whilst as prices of copper and diamonds have trended down, Zambia and Botswana’s economies have struggled respectively. On a more positive note, with most regional economies being net oil importers, the rapid fall in oil prices is likely to ease the pressure on many economies.
02 March 2021
Africa
Covid-19 in Africa: Focus on North Africa
Within Africa, North African countries have recorded the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases. While economic outlook in the region has previously been clouded by political uncertainty, the impact of Covid-19 on individual economies is expected to vary depending on which sectors are prevalent in each economy.
28 February 2021
Africa
Covid-19 IN AFRICA: Focus on Western Africa
While the region’s rate of Covid-19 infections has declined, we expect West Africa’s economic outlook in Q3 2020 to be impacted by a decline in commodity prices, upcoming elections and reduced financial flows.
28 February 2021
