A Six Day Africa Real Estate Conference and Expo (ARCE) have been launched in Accra with a call on Estate Developers in Ghana and across the African continent to fully participate in the conference that sought to unveil specialists in the infrastructure sector. The Conference and exhibition event is being hosted and organized by Ghana Real Estate Professional Association (GREPA) with...
Ghana's Parliament has passed the Income Tax (Amended) Bill, 2022 to amend the Income Tax Act, 2015 (Act 896) to extend the exemption from tax of gains on the realization of shares listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange for five years. Mr. Kwaku Kwarteng, the Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament moved for the adoption of the Income Tax (Amended) Bill, 2022, and was seconded by Dr. Cassiel Ato...
Landed property is a very essential asset to nations, businesses, and individuals. It is a cherished asset for top-notch investors in the world to feel safe to keep their funds. Nonetheless, owning land has always come with its challenges. From time immemorial, conflicts from land litigation have seen people murdered, families are torn apart, land guards’ brutalities, siblings fighting and companies...
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor (MP) on Friday, August 5, 2022, commissioned a modernized community fitted with first-class roads, health, education, and religious infrastructure for residents of New Biung and New Accra in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. The eco-friendly and well-laid-out community which was constructed by the mining firm...
Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor (MP), the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources has inaugurated a committee to oversee the planning and implementation of the Green Street Project which is set to commence immediately. At a brief ceremony held at the Ministry’s Conference Room on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, the Lands Minister tasked the members of the committee to act virtuously in helping the...
For decades, when people built themselves new homes in Ghana’s capital, Accra, you could be pretty sure it would be a compound house. These mini-complexes of houses — grouped around shaded courtyards set back from the street — were the building blocks of modern Accra, bringing together extended families that had migrated from the countryside. The compound offered close kinship...
Ghana was placed second next to South Africa in an open budget survey for Sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by the World Bank group. The third was Uganda, which came within close striking distance of 61 points with a score of 53 percent, with both following South Africa which emerged first in the region with a score of 85 percent. The Open Budget Survey is an assessment of fiscal transparency,...
The Chief Executive and founder of Baron and Cabot, Mark Pearson has said investment traction from West Africa and Ghana into the United Kingdom’s real estate market has been on an upward trajectory. Ghanaian investors are now exploring alternative investment plans abroad. Following a turbulent first half of the year for the local economy, many are seeking to salvage whatever value is left on...
The Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partnership with the Ministry of Works and Housing, has organized a forum on the draft of the Rent Bill and the proposed National Housing Authority Bill in Kumasi. This academic conference is aimed at providing the needed institutional framework to safeguard issues with rent (Rent Bill) and also help sanitise the...
The Ghana Real Estate Professionals Association (GREPA) has inaugurated and sworn into office a twelve-member governing board, the beautiful ceremony held at the GREPA Secretariat in East Legon inaugurated ten of the directors in person and two members(in absentia participated) via zoom. The event was attended by real estate faithfuls and some notable stakeholders in the real estate industry who...