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In May 2010, I put out an article on the burgeoning real estate market in Ghana with the title “The luxury condo and townhome market is booming in Ghana.” [...]

….by High Prices, High Taxes and Outrageous Interest Rates! Never in the history of this country have three economic forces combined concurrently to seriously threaten the ability of [...]

Suddenly, the skyline of the city of Accra is changing. Accra is becoming a hub of real estate construction activity. Old lorry parks are being abandoned for huge office blocks. Dilapidated [...]

The Economic Gravy Train is Passing you by! In the days of yore, when our country was struggling to shake itself off the shackles of colonialism, it was absolutely necessary for the colonial [...]

There are times in the history of a country when leaders are given the opportunity to do something massive and substantial that impacts the destiny of their countries and changes completely the [...]

It is because I have written extensively on real estate issues in Ghana that I feel a sense of duty and obligation to write on this subject. In a previous article titled, “The job-creating [...]

In a country where the police openly and wantonly demand bribes from the citizenry for even minor traffic violations, and the citizens are openly and wantonly eager to give them, you wonder if it [...]

Certain things are just so obvious and so glaring that when they are not done right, even a three- or four-year old child could point them out to you right in your face and you can only gasp: [...]

One of the basics I learnt taking my real estate classes twenty years ago is the fact that buildings, like us human beings, also go through life cycles. Just as we are born and raised, cared for, [...]

If you live in America and you still think people in Africa live in trees, as your grandfather had prejudiced your mind a long time ago, think again! Welcome to Accra, Ghana, the land of Kwame [...]