It may be the best time to invest in Addis real estate that we have seen in a long time.  The high levels of promotion seen these days is one indicator of that although not the only reason why by any means. Over the past couple of decades, real estate in Addis Ababa has been characterized most by the consistent march upwards of prices at high rates.  In the past 5 years alone, prices have gone up...

Everything has changed.  Yet, nothing has changed.  This appears to be the story of the real estate sector in Addis where the only difference as to which option you choose from the paradoxical pairing, depends on how far you’re looking into the future.  Overview Never before has business (or life in general for that matter) been so universally impacted as it has been worldwide due to the...

What you don’t know about how developers calculate the area of an apartment you might be considering buying, could cost you millions. The more you know about how areas could be calculated, the better informed your buying decision will be. Comparing apartments is an imperfect science of course.  So many variables can affect the perceived value of a given apartment, especially in Ethiopia where...

Real estate in Addis has somewhat of a checkered history. And to some extent, we might expect it to in a rapidly developing city which is transforming itself into a modern metropolis before our very eyes.  Especially given a highly dynamic urban planning department to say the least. But one thing has remained true over the past 20+ years – real estate has been and remains today one of the best...

Several months ago, Zeway Trading PLC offered the rough equivalent of a Lifan hatchback/m2 for a plot of land in Mercato.  Public opinion overwhelmingly seems to think this is crazy....