For landowners
What Your Idle Acre Is Worth
Land sitting idle earns nothing and still costs you rates, disputes and encroachment. On this county's own prices your 1 acre is worth around KSh 9,014,400 to sell, or about KSh 585,936 a year in ground rent if you keep it and lease it. Everything on this page is published with the workings, so you can argue with it.
Lower
KSh 6,760,800
Worth to sell
KSh 9,014,400
Higher
KSh 11,268,000
Ground rent a year
KSh 585,936
KSKF Estimate Higher confidence · range ±25% · Ministry value zones published
KSh 9,014,400 an acre on our model, peri-urban, edge of town. Held on a lease, the ground rent for 1 acre would be KSh 585,936 a year at 6.5% of value. The Ministry has published value-zone maps for this county. Ask the county lands office or Ardhisasa for the zone covering your plot: that figure replaces ours outright.
You do not have to sell it
Every Way It Can Pay You
| Route | Paid to you on day one | Rent a year | Over 15 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freehold purchaseYou buy it. No rent, no reversion, the highest price. | KSh 9,014,400 | Nothing | KSh 9,014,400 |
| 99-year leaseThe standard long lease for a serious build. Effectively ownership for the life of the facility. | KSh 8,293,248 | KSh 585,936 | KSh 8,293,248 |
| 50-year leaseLong enough to fund a stadium or an academy and pay it back twice. | KSh 7,031,232 | KSh 585,936 | KSh 7,031,232 |
| 15-year leaseThe minimum we will build anything permanent on. Below this, capital cannot be recovered. | KSh 3,425,472 | KSh 585,936 | KSh 3,425,472 |
| Revenue share, no rentThe owner takes an agreed share of gate, hire and sponsorship instead of rent. | Nothing | Nothing | Nothing |
What could go on it
Around 161,803 people can reach this land inside 30 minutes — enough for roughly 13 Sunday-league teams. That is the demand a pitch here would be built on, and the reason a football project is a tenant rather than a favour.
An indoor futsal arena, two courts needs 0.789 acres and would take about KSh 15,454,320 a year in Kisumu. On our own figures it clears the market ground rent of KSh 462,304 a year, so it is the kind of use that pays you every year and still leaves the land yours.
Get the sheet
One Page, Sent To You
Tell us where to send it and we will email your one-page sheet as a PDF — the value range, every route, what fits and what to do next. Forward it to whoever in the family needs to see it.
Correct our number
If This Is Wrong, Tell Us
This is modelled from published county data, so in some wards it will be wrong. If you know what an acre near you actually sold, let or was asked for, send the price and where it was published. We will correct the county page and date the change. Nothing is paid for it, we make no introductions, and it does not put your land on any market.
Send a real priceBefore anyone makes you an offer
Worth Doing First
1. Do an official search on Ardhisasa
KSh 500-ish and an hour. It confirms the title, the size and whether anything is registered against the land. Nobody can make you an offer without it, and no figure on this sheet survives a bad search.
2. Get a registered valuer's report before you sign anything
This sheet is a published estimate from county data. A valuer's report is the number a bank, a buyer or a court will accept, and it usually costs a fraction of the difference it finds.
3. Ask for a lease, not only a sale
Selling is once. A 99, 50 or 15-year lease keeps the land in the family and pays every year — and a revenue share pays you a slice of what gets built on it instead of rent.
4. Tell us about the land and we will read it
It costs nothing to tell us about it, and telling us creates no entitlement to any payment, commission or compensation. No fee, commission or incentive of any kind is offered for it, we do not forward what you send to anyone, and any licensed professional you need you appoint yourself.
Sale value = KSh 4,800,000/acre (serviced peri-urban national reference) x county index 1.406 raised to 1.85 = 1.878 x location factor 1.0 x 1 acre. Ground rent = 6.5% of sale value a year, shown for reference; this route pays no rent. A published range, not a valuation. The range is deliberately wide because Kenya has no open register of land sales. The Ministry of Lands is already ahead of us in Kisumu: ministry value zones published, so its zone value for your plot replaces this estimate. Use ours only until you have theirs.