Off-plan projects for sale in Kilimani
Nairobi’s busiest off-plan market. One- and two-beds dominate, and the gap between a good tower and a bad one is wide.
114 off-plan homes across 38 developments in Kilimani, from Woodley to the Dennis Pritt pocket, with a real asking price on every listing, staged payment plans, and our due diligence done before you pay a shilling.
The corridor
Central Nairobi convenience, priced for first buyers.
Kilimani is Nairobi’s highest-volume apartment market and the deepest off-plan inventory on Block.ke: 114 listings across 38 developments, most of them handing over between 2027 and 2029. Lenana Road, Argwings Kodhek and Ngong Road stitch it to the CBD, Upper Hill and Hurlingham, with Yaya Centre, Adlife Plaza and Junction Mall in walking range.
Three buyers dominate. First-timers and young professionals enter at KES 3M to 5M for studios and one-beds at towers like Baystar and Bahari Central. Investors and diaspora buyers chase the area’s rental and short-stay demand. Families trade up into three- and four-bed stock from the mid-teens at Luna Oak and Serene Manor. The honest caveat: Kilimani is densifying fast, so the building matters as much as the address. Back projects that compete on build quality and amenities, not just the postcode.
- Price floor
- KES 2.5M at 300 Woodley Village on the Woodley edge; KES 3M for a Baystar studio on George Padmore Road.
- Typical unit
- Studios of 30 to 45 sqm and one-beds of 45 to 60 sqm dominate launches; two-beds from about 60 sqm.
- Handover windows
- 20 homes complete in 2026, 31 in 2027, 41 in 2028 and 20 in 2029 or later.
- Who buys here
- First-time buyers, short-let and buy-to-let investors, diaspora Kenyans, and families trading up.
- Getting around
- Argwings Kodhek, Lenana Road and Ngong Road to the CBD and Upper Hill; Yaya, Adlife and Junction Mall on foot.
- Watch-outs
- Density and traffic. Check the view line, the service charge and the developer’s completed buildings before reserving.
Price ladder, October 2026
- Studios from
- KES 3MBaystar, George Padmore Road
- One-beds from
- KES 5MBaystar, completing Q2 2028
- Two-beds from
- KES 7.39MBahari Central, Kilimani Road
- Three-beds from
- KES 13.5MSuper Gardens Kilimani
Developer asking prices on live Block.ke listings, October 2026, taken from the cheapest single-type listing we could verify. Higher floors, larger layouts and DSQ options cost more; cash buyers often pay less than the payment-plan price.
When do you want the keys?
Browse by completion year.
Kilimani’s pipeline is spread evenly: a fifth of the homes hand over in 2026, more than a third in 2028. Pick the window that fits your money and your patience.
Counts are the homes in Kilimani tagged with each completion year on Block.ke in October 2026; each tile opens the Nairobi-wide archive for that year. Handover dates are the developer’s stated schedule; we tell you where a timeline looks optimistic.
Projects worth your deposit
Six developments we would put a deposit on.
Hand-picked across budgets in Kilimani, from the cheapest verified entry to the family-sized top end. Every card shows the developer’s real asking price. No “call for price”, no bait.
Prices are asking prices on live Block.ke listings, October 2026. Payment plans and completion dates are the developer’s stated terms at the time of listing.
Lowest entryBaystar Kilimani
A 22-storey tower near Yaya Centre with the cheapest studio in Kilimani proper. Compact, central and built for the short-let and first-buyer market.
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Payment plan to 2028Cambridge Garden
184 apartments over 20 floors with four penthouses on top, sold on flexible plans that run to completion. One of the few launches here with real three-bed stock at the lower end.
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Closest to keysSkyline Wood Avenue
An 18-storey block with a rooftop pool on one of Kilimani’s leafier side streets, and the shortest wait of any project on this page.
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One-bed benchmarkBahari Central
Its KES 5.04M one-beds set the one-bed floor for Kilimani’s whole off-plan market, with two-beds from KES 7.39M and a flexible plan to handover.
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Family layoutsSerene Manor
A 20-floor scheme of 400-plus units with pool, gym and borehole. The earliest confirmed family-sized handover on this list, and four-bed layouts if you need them.
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Trade-upLuna Oak Residency
25 floors, every bedroom en-suite, pool and jogging track. The trade-up play for families outgrowing their current block without leaving the neighbourhood.
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Live off-plan listings in Kilimani.
Fresh from the developers we work with, updated as units sell and prices move. Filter by completion year, or open the full search to narrow by budget and bedrooms.
Why here
Why buy off-plan in Kilimani.
The case for paying before completion, in this particular postcode.
Prices that start with a 3
Off-plan studios open at KES 3M and one-beds at KES 5M, a central Kilimani address for less than equivalent product costs in Westlands. Same convenience, smaller cheque.
20 percent down, pay as it builds
Almost every Kilimani project sells on a deposit near 20 percent with instalments tracking construction to handover. You lock today’s price and spread the balance over the build.
Tenants you can see from the balcony
Yaya Centre, Adlife Plaza, Junction Mall, hospitals and offices along Argwings Kodhek and Ngong Road keep rental and short-stay demand constant. Investors are already here for exactly that reason.
First pick in a filling-up market
Kilimani is densifying fast. Buying early means choosing your floor, orientation and layout while the leafy side-street projects on Wood Avenue and around Dennis Pritt still have their best units.
Honest trade-off: off-plan is not risk-free. Delays happen, a few projects stall, and your protection is the contract and the checks done before you pay. That is the part we take seriously, and it is laid out in the due-diligence section below.
Due diligence
The homework we do before you pay a shilling.
Kilimani has 38 developments on this page and the developers behind them are not all equal. Here is what we verify before a project earns a spot here, and before you put a deposit anywhere.
Title search at the Lands Registry
An official search confirms the developer actually owns the land, and that it is free of charges and caveats that could stall the project or your title.
Approvals, not brochures
NCA registration, county construction permits and environmental clearances, verified against the actual documents rather than the marketing deck.
Developer track record
What they have delivered before, whether it landed on time, and how those buildings have held up since. Past delays predict future delays.
Sale agreement review
Your own advocate reads every clause: completion date, grace period, penalties, assignment rights and refund terms. We flag anything that quietly shifts risk onto you.
Payment plan and escrow
Instalments should track construction milestones, and ideally sit in a project account released against progress, not straight into the developer’s pocket.
Updates until handover
We track construction and report back until you hold the keys and the title, not just until the deposit is paid.
Straight answers
Kilimani off-plan, asked and answered.
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Read before you reserve
Market intel, minus the fluff.
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