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Despite the breaking Genocide news in 1994 that left over a million Rwandans dead and thousands of orphaned children and widows, Rwanda has made significant steps of development. Various sectors including manufacturing, housing, and rural settlement, infrastructure and urbanization have been steadily growing. This has benefited the Rwandan community and boosted the country’s economy to new...

Rwanda: Real Estate Industry among the major Sectors propelling Economic Growth Last year, Rwanda posted an increase in economic growth mainly contributed to increased growth in the service sector, especially the real estate industry. This is according to a report released by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). The economy grew by 6.0 percent exceeding the initial forecasted growth...

The steadily growing real estate sector of Kigali was one of the major contributors to the economic growth of Rwanda last year. The sector contributed about 8 percent to the national GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2017. The real estate services including the sale and occupancy of homes recorded a growth of 5 percent last year, according to reports by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda...

According to recent studies, Kigali rakes higher rental yields in the residential and retail sectors than other cities in Sub Saharan Africa. Rental yield is the rate of profits compared to the cost of the investment property, typically expressed in percentages.  Kigali records 8.1 percentages on average rental return from the residential real estate industry while its retail sector records 9.8 percent...

Rwanda gears up to usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution which will change the country’s entire outlook. However, concerns have been raised by some of the private sector members who fear that their innovation capacity is still low. In the transformation to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, new technologies are incorporated in all sectors including the physical, biological and digital platforms....

To many people around the world, Sub- Sahara Africa is a no-go region especially when one thinks in investment and entrepreneurship lines of thought. However to informed business minded people this region has endless great investment opportunities. Efforts have started to play off in African countries to diversify the economy in order to maintain a steady economic growth.  These calls are aimed at...

To many people around the world, Sub- Sahara Africa is a no-go region especially when one thinks in investment and entrepreneurship lines of thought. However to informed business minded people this region has endless great investment opportunities. Efforts have started to play off in African countries to diversify the economy in order to maintain a steady economic growth.  These calls are aimed at...