Riverside property prices
Median asking prices and rents in Riverside, Nairobi, from listings live on SpaceYako. Computed 30 October 2026.
Asking prices in Riverside
| Property | Median asking price | Range | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments | KES 11.3M | KES 6.8M – KES 43M | 12 |
| 1 bedroom | KES 8.3M | KES 6.8M – KES 8.8M | 5 |
| 2 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 10.5M – KES 14M | 4 |
| 3 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 24M – KES 43M | 2 |
| 4 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 26.6M | 1 |
Asking rents in Riverside
| Property | Median asking rent | Range | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments | Fewer than 5 | KES 170K – KES 338K | 4 |
| 1 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 170K | 1 |
| 2 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 260K | 1 |
| 3 bedroom | Fewer than 5 | KES 180K – KES 338K | 2 |
What Riverside is like
Riverside is the area along Riverside Drive, roughly 2 to 4 km west to north-west of the CBD, starting near Chiromo. Its edges are informal. It is often called Westlands, but it sits in Kileleshwa ward, Dagoretti North constituency, within Westlands sub-county. Land use is mixed: office blocks including Prime Bank's head office and the Commission on Revenue Allocation at 14 Riverside Drive, the Netherlands and German embassies, and homes and apartments. In 2012 homeowners went to court over City Hall's approval of high-rise apartments.
- Main roads
- Riverside Drive, Chiromo Road, Waiyaki Way
- Getting around
- Roughly 2 to 4 km west to north-west of the CBD in a straight line, depending on the point along Riverside Drive. Riverside Drive runs beside Waiyaki Way near Chiromo, and the Nairobi Expressway runs along Waiyaki Way to the James Gichuru junction.
- Nearby
- Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Prime Bank head office, Commission on Revenue Allocation, Chiromo, Kileleshwa
- Who it suits
- People who want a home close to the CBD and Westlands, on a road shared by embassies, head offices and apartment buildings.
Sources
- City Hall opens up Nairobi's top estates to high-rise office blocks (23 April 2012), Business Daily
- Contact embassy Nairobi, Government of the Netherlands
- German Embassy Nairobi, German Federal Foreign Office
- Contact us, Prime Bank
- Vacancy announcement: Executive Secretary (November 2021), Commission on Revenue Allocation
- Nairobi rains: motorists stuck in traffic after section of Waiyaki Way floods (16 March 2023), Citizen Digital
- Inside the decade-long bruising legal battle for 14 Riverside (25 August 2024), The Standard
- Kileleshwa, Wikipedia
- Nairobi Expressway now open, but you must pay (14 May 2022), Capital FM
Written by SpaceYako. Facts last checked 15 October 2026.
Riverside against Nairobi as a whole
| Median asking | Nairobi | Riverside | Riverside vs Nairobi |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-bedroom apartments, sale | KES 7.4M60 listings | KES 8.3M5 listings | +12% |
Compare Riverside with
12 properties for sale in Riverside · 4 properties for rent in Riverside
How asking prices in Riverside have moved
Weekly readings began 23 October 2026. A trend appears here once a figure has 4 weeks of medians behind it.
How these figures are computed
- What is counted
- Every sale and rental listing live on SpaceYako when the figures were computed: published, and within its 60-day window. Expired, draft and withdrawn listings are excluded.
- What a figure means
- The median asking price: half of the listings ask more, half ask less. It is not a sale price, a valuation or a forecast. No public register of agreed prices exists in Kenya, and these numbers do not stand in for one.
- Like with like
- Medians are taken per property type, and per bedroom count for apartments and houses. Plots, offices and flats are never mixed into one number.
- When a figure is withheld
- A median needs at least 5 listings with a price in Kenyan shillings above a placeholder floor. Below that, the count and range are still shown.
- Freshness
- Computed 30 October 2026. Figures catch up within the hour as listings are published, edited or reach the end of their window.
- Limits
- The index reflects what is advertised on SpaceYako, which is not the whole market. Areas with few listings move sharply when one listing arrives or leaves. Asking rents exclude deposit, service charge and agency fees, which a listing shows separately where its agent has entered them.
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