Frequently asked
Straight answers, no sales fog
The questions serious clients ask before they engage us — answered the way we would answer them across a desk.
Working with us
Thirty to forty-five minutes: your goals, timeline, budget and risk appetite; an honest read on whether current market conditions favour your mission; and — if we are not the right firm for it — we say so and point you somewhere useful. No pitch decks, no pressure, no fee.
Mandate-dependent and stated in writing before work begins: a success fee on sales and acquisitions, a management percentage on portfolios (market-typical ranges sit around 5–8% of collected income), and fixed or retainer structures for advisory and JV structuring. No formal fee schedule is published on this site yet — the fee disclosure on our Proof page states what is charged, what is negotiated per mandate, and what we deliberately do not charge for. We are allergic to unclear fee stacks and will walk you through every line before you sign anything.
Constantly — it is one of our core desks. The protocol: verification before money, escrowed deposits, staged payments against milestones, documented escorted inspections, and reporting you can read from any timezone. Two of the representative mandates on our track-record page (Nyali, Kitengela) ran end-to-end with clients who never boarded a flight — the playbook is exactly as described; the named cases are labelled representative until permissioned client stories replace them.
Buying & selling
Budget roughly 5.9% in urban areas: stamp duty at 4% (2% rural), legal fees around 1.5%, valuation ~0.25% and registration/misc ~0.15%. Mortgage buyers should add bank processing (~0.5%) and required insurances. We publish the full stack in writing before you commit — surprises are for birthdays.
A clean, verified file runs six to ten weeks from offer to registered title: verification days, sale agreement one to two weeks, stamp duty and Ardhisasa transfer two to six weeks. Mortgages add two to four weeks of bank processing. The biggest source of delay is seller documentation — which is why we verify before anyone signs anything.
The house method, now also automated in Keja.ai: official Ardhisasa title and encumbrance search, rates and rent clearance, approved-plan reconciliation, price-band analysis against comparable sales, and photo/duplicate forensics on listings. If something does not reconcile, the deal pauses — not the other way around.
Keja.ai & tokenization
Keja.ai is our digital flagship — Kenya’s AI real-estate advisor and cross-agency trust layer, launched in 2026. It carries the same verification discipline the firm runs manually into software: trust-scored listings, investment math with FACT/ESTIMATE/ASSUMPTION labels, and the Keja Tokenize demo for fractional ownership. You can browse it live at the Keja.ai preview (gadda00.github.io/keja-ai) until the keja.ai domain is pointed there.
Keja Tokenize currently runs in clearly-labelled demo/simulation mode: real Nairobi assets modelled with simulated ledgers, KYC gating and a secondary-market preview. Real, regulated tokenized offerings will follow the CMA sandbox process and institutional structuring work on our 2026–2030 roadmap. We will not sell securities ahead of the law.
The current platforms run client-side with your data stored locally in your own browser — we hold no central database of visitor accounts. Where real transactions begin, KYC and payment data will flow only through licensed, encrypted processors under written data-protection terms aligned to the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019.
Trust & safety
Regularly, and on principle. We decline mandates where title cannot be verified, where the price cannot be justified by the income, or where the client’s interests would be better served by waiting. The house rule is simple: we say no to deals we would not do with our own money.
We operate within Kenya’s real-estate regulatory framework and work with licensed advocates for all conveyancing, with valuers registered where valuation is required, and towards EAC licensing as directives roll out. Regulatory posture — including the CMA sandbox track for tokenization — is documented on our Ventures page.