Unity Homes and the making of Tatu City's residential estates

Unity Homes was founded in 2015 with a stated mission to mass-produce investment-grade affordable housing, with a focus on community, to enhance lives and secure futures. That framing — investment-grade, affordable, community-focused — is unusual in Kenyan property development, and it shows in how the estates have been built and received.

Across 34 acres within Tatu City, Unity Homes has delivered 1,180 homes to date, with nearly 3,000 planned in total. The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified, EDGE certified by the International Finance Corporation, and holds a 4.7 Google rating — a number that is difficult to sustain across a residential development of any meaningful size.

Unity Homes has developed multiple named estates within Tatu City's residential zone. Unity One offers one-bedroom apartments of 45 square metres, currently 61% sold, from KSh 6.1 million. Unity Parkside — the most recent offering — provides two and three-bedroom apartments of 85 to 116 square metres, currently 33% sold, from KSh 10.8 million. Silver Hill, the group's townhouse offering, features three and four-bedroom homes of 218 to 231 square metres, with Phase One nearly complete.

Unity East, Unity West, and Unity Gardens are sold out. That sell-out pace in what has historically been a cautious market for purpose-built residential development is a signal worth noting — it reflects genuine end-user demand, not speculative accumulation. The ongoing sales pace at Unity Parkside and Silver Hill confirms the pattern is continuing.

ISO 9001:2015 is a quality management standard that governs the processes by which a product is built — not the product itself, but the systems, controls, and consistency behind its production. For residents and guests, it means the apartments were built to a documented, audited quality process, not to whatever standard was convenient at the time.

EDGE — Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies — is an International Finance Corporation standard requiring a certified building to use at least 20% less energy, water, and embodied energy in materials than a comparable local building. For residents, this has practical relevance to utility costs. For property owners, it is increasingly a credential that corporate clients and sustainability-conscious tenants expect to see.

Cool Maskani manages furnished apartments in Unity One and Unity East — two of the estates in which Unity Homes has already delivered homes. Both sit within Tatu City's secured perimeter with 24/7 security and controlled access. The apartments are built to Unity Homes' quality and certification standards; Cool Maskani furnishes and manages them on behalf of their owners.

When a guest stays with us, they are in a Unity Homes-built apartment — with a consistent structural and finish standard — managed by the Cool Maskani team, which means maintained, cleaned, and supported from arrival to checkout. For owners of units in these estates, we handle the occupancy so the asset earns without requiring day-to-day involvement.

Unity East, Unity West, and Unity Gardens being sold out means the secondary market for these units is the only route in for new buyers. Owners holding units in these estates are holding a scarce asset in a growing SEZ city with verifiable infrastructure investment and genuine residential demand.

A well-managed, properly furnished unit inside these estates is not competing with an oversupplied market — it is operating in one where demand is ahead of available managed supply. If you own a unit in any of the Unity Homes estates and want to understand what professional management looks like, WhatsApp us and we will walk you through how it works.