A proposed bill by Housing Minister, Soita Shitanda, that affects you as both a tenant and a landlord.

A summary of the day's goings-on at the NSE. There were 4.843 million KCB shares traded today with the share closing 25 cents up. Safaricom however, 4.042 million shares trading with teh counter closing 5 cents down.

Should the Landlord and Tenant Bill before parliament be passed, landlords will have to get a permit from authorities to increase their rent. The bill which is before parliament seeks to to protect both landlords and tenants to ensure that both parties have an agreeable business relationship. Housing minister Soita…

Do you earn a decent salary but are always broke? You can’t seem to get a handle of where your money went or how you spent it all. The first step towards escaping this vicious cycle of mismanagement of your funds is to start keeping track of…

Longhorn Publishers is set to list on the Alternative Market Segment (AIMS) of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). The publisher will list 58,500,000 ordinary shares at KES 1 per share. Prior to the decision to list publicly the share were trading at KES 66 per share on the Over-the-Counter Market…

Mortgage financier, Housing Finance is set to construct 162 maisonettes and a commercial centre. The firm, through its subsidiary, Kenya Building Society, will put up the structure on a13-acre piece of land in Komarock, Nairobi, at a cost of Sh800 million, making a grand return to property…

A summary of what to look out for in today's trading at the NSE. Safaricom will be one to watch. Yesterday's results announcement should drive up the share price. Eyes should also be on Unga Group. The share price rose the maximum 10% in yesterday's trading.

According to Reuters, Equity Bank could consider listing overseas as their rapid, exponential expansion puts the company in danger of outgrowing the Nairobi Stock Exchange’s capacity in terms of liquidity and efficiency constraints. Equity is Kenya’s second largest bank in terms of profitability and their loan book, has operations…

Below is the performance of the Kenyan Shilling against major world and regional currencies as compared to the day before: Currency US Dollars Sterling Pounds Euro SA Rand KES/USHS KES/TSHS KES/RWF Date 09/05/2012 83.2831 134.7159 108.5593 10.6367 29.7781 18.9835 7.2345 10/05/2012 83.3972 134.6141 108.0031 10.4418 29.8572 18.8856 7.2247 As we…

The Mumias Sugar Company stock is a very interesting one, no offence to the Kenya Orchards share (see Kenya Orchards’ 2011 results here). The share has been pretty active lately. Interestingly, the share picked up steam at the Nairobi Securities Exchange right after the company announced…