Rongai sub-county residents have been advised to consider investing in real estate businesses to tap the rising accommodation and business premises demands and opportunities in the region.
While talking to women groups and other small-scale traders at Kambi ya Moto trading centre on Tuesday, the patron of the Rongai Women Groups Association Mary Kigen said that the expanding county provides good ground for such business.
She further added that the central government services in the area together with the student population from Kabarak University provided good opportunities for local business people to invest in housing projects.
"We have many workers in government and at the Kabarak University who commute from Nakuru everyday because there are no houses to rent in this area. Students at the university also lack hostels to rent. We can tap this opportunity to invest in housing projects,” said Kigen.
Kigen further encouraged the area women groups to use their table banking savings to borrow loans from the Women Enterprise Fund and other financial institutions to invest in real estate projects and develop the area as well as securing financial freedoms.
"Let us take advantage of the loans from thes institutions and invest more in real estate business," added Kigen.