Where demand outruns supply in Nairobi.
Searches on Kenya Property Centre measured against the listings live to meet them in Nairobi. Updated 5 Nov 2026.
Most competitive areas
Most competitive towns for rentals
Most competitive towns for homes for sale
Searches in the window divided by the listings live on 4 Nov 2026 that a searcher could actually rent or buy — published, priced whole, in KES. The index puts the national rate at 100.
Unmet demand: where searches find nothing
Where rentals are hardest to find
Where homes for sale are hardest to find
A search found nothing when the page it landed on listed no properties. "Mostly" names the bed count and budget band most of those searches asked for; searches with no bed count or budget stated are counted but not described.
Budgets against asking prices
Searchers furthest below asking, rentals
Searchers above asking, homes for sale
The typical budget is the median maximum price searchers stated, from at least 50 searches that stated one; the asking price is the median of the live listings. "Within budget" is the share of those listings priced at or under the typical budget.
Bedroom mismatch
Bedroom mismatch in Nairobi
Each bar is the share of searches asking for that bed count minus the share of live listings offering it, in percentage points: to the right, more people want it than the market lists; to the left, the reverse. Searches with no bed count stated, and listings with no bedrooms recorded, are left out of both shares.
Where the enquiries go
Where the rent enquiries go
Where the sale enquiries go
Enquiries are contacts made through the site, counted once per person, listing, channel and day, over the 28 days before the latest scoring night (4 Nov 2026), divided by the listings live on 4 Nov 2026.
Furnished and serviced rentals
The share of rent searches that asked for a furnished or serviced home, against the share of live rent listings that offer one.
What stands out in Nairobi
Mountain View is the tightest rental market
7.1 searches for every live rent listing, against 6.4 nationally.
See Mountain View46.7% of rent searches in Mugumo-Ini (Langata) found nothing
50 of 107 searches landed on an empty page — mostly 2 bedroom · KSh 100K to KSh 150K.
See Mugumo-Ini (Langata)Rent budgets in Karen sit 33% below asking
Searchers typically set a maximum of KSh 146.9K against a median asking price of KSh 220K; 32% of listings within the typical budget.
See KarenQuestions this report answers
Where is rental demand highest relative to supply in Nairobi?
Mountain View recorded 7.1 searches for every live rent listing between 6 Oct to 4 Nov 2026, the highest of any town with at least 100 searches and 20 listings.
How often do rent searches in Nairobi find nothing?
13.0% of the 18,133 rent searches recorded between 6 Oct to 4 Nov 2026 returned no listings; mostly 1 bedroom · KSh 30K to KSh 50K.
How do rent budgets compare with asking prices in Nairobi?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was KSh 94.5K, 21% below asking the median asking price of KSh 120K; 33% of listings within the typical budget.
How often do sale searches in Nairobi find nothing?
11.6% of the 12,774 sale searches recorded between 6 Oct to 4 Nov 2026 returned no listings; mostly 3 bedroom · KSh 5M to KSh 7M.
How do sale budgets compare with asking prices in Nairobi?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was KSh 18.2M, 4% below asking the median asking price of KSh 19M; 49% of listings within the typical budget.
How is this report measured?
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Kenya Property Centre between 6 Oct to 4 Nov 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in KES and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
How we measure demand against supply.
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Kenya Property Centre between 6 Oct to 4 Nov 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in KES and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
No individual search or searcher is published; every figure is a count or a share over an area. Enquiries are counted the way the quarterly market report counts them — once per person, listing, channel and day.
For asking prices, see our average property prices and the quarterly market reports.
Using this data.
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Source: Kenya Property Centre, Where demand outruns supply in Nairobi, https://kenyapropertycentre.com/market-trends/demand-trends/nairobi
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