Nairobi's Last Large Single-Title Land Parcel Is Up for Grabs

There is a moment in every African city's growth story when the land that surrounds it shifts from agricultural afterthought to the most competed-for asset in the region. Nairobi has lived that story in Westlands, in Karen, in Ruiru. Now it is playing out — with striking speed — in Juja Farm, Kiambu County. And for the first time in years, a parcel large enough to matter is available.

A 20-acre single-title leasehold holding in Juja Farm has been brought to market by Metro & Manor Limited, a Nairobi-based property advisory firm specialising in development-scale land transactions. It is one of the last contiguous parcels of this scale remaining in a corridor that analysts are rapidly reassessing — and the timing of its availability is no accident

Full Details Are Here https://metroandmanor.co.ke/juja

The road that changes everything

Kenya's government has committed KES 3.9 billion to tarmac the route connecting Juja town directly to Juja Farm. The project is underway. When complete, it will cut travel times dramatically, lower construction logistics costs, and trigger the kind of residential and commercial development that road access has historically unlocked across Nairobi's satellite towns.

Water infrastructure and electricity connectivity are expanding in parallel. For investors who have watched the Thika Superhighway corridor absorb a decade of capital, the pattern is familiar. The difference in Juja Farm is that the window — the period between infrastructure commitment and price discovery — is still open. Barely.

“Parcels of this size and title clarity in a corridor with this infrastructure momentum are becoming structurally rare. Buyers who move before the road is finished are acquiring at a price that will look very different in 24 months.”

— Principal, Metro & Manor Limited

Why single-title matters

Most land in peri-urban Nairobi has already been subdivided into eighths and quarters — small plots suited to individual self-builds, not to institutional development or phased estate projects. A 20-acre single-title holding is a fundamentally different asset. It gives the buyer planning control, the ability to design infrastructure holistically, and optionality on how and when to deploy capital.

This parcel carries clean title with no encumbrances, no disputes, and no historic subdivision. The terrain is flat and development-ready. It has approved road access. These are not details — in Kenya's land market, they are the difference between a transaction that completes and one that stalls in a lawyer's office for three years.

Built for the diaspora investor

Overseas Kenyans remitted more than $4.2 billion into the country in 2024 — a record. A growing share of that capital is seeking land, but the mechanisms for remote acquisition have historically been opaque, slow, and high-risk. Metro & Manor's transaction structure has been designed to close that gap.

Every stage of the process is executable remotely: expression of interest by email, information pack delivery within five business days, advocate-managed escrow for funds, title transfer via power of attorney, and international wire transfer for completion. The firm provides a shortlist of independent Kenyan counsel for buyers who need representation, and the full due diligence period — including Lands Registry searches, encumbrance checks, and zoning review — runs penalty-free for the buyer.

Who this is for: Residential developers, SACCOs, institutional land-banking mandates, family offices, and high-net-worth diaspora investors in the UK, US, Canada, and Gulf states.

Who this is not for: Retail plot buyers, speculative flip strategies, or high-density apartment mandates.

Pricing: Disclosed after a qualifying Expression of Interest. The asset is off-market and will not be subdivided for retail sale.

The window, and what closes it

The comparison that keeps surfacing among those tracking Juja Farm is Ruiru — a corridor that moved from agricultural fringe to one of Nairobi's most active residential markets inside a decade, driven by the same combination of road investment, population spillover, and institutional land banking. The difference is that in Ruiru, the large single-title opportunity was largely gone before most international buyers were paying attention.

In Juja Farm, the road is still being built. The corridor is still being priced as emerging. And this parcel is still available. Those three things will not be simultaneously true for long.

Metro & Manor Ltd
City: Nairobi
Address: Greenway road
Website: https://metroandmanor.co.ke/