Browsing: High Net-Worth Individuals in Kenya

• Kenya’s wealthy are leading a strategic shift from luxury homes and foreign assets to energy-efficient, revenue-generating investments in 2025.
• Knight Frank report shows they’re they are turning their attention—and billions—on home-grown opportunities in technology, agriculture, data centres, and green energy.
• Nearly 77% of wealth managers surveyed said inherited assets represent less than 40% of their clients’ wealth portfolios. For half of them, that figure is under 30%.

Kenya’s wealthy individuals are fast redrawing the roadmap to riches. A new survey shows that East Africa’s largest economy is experiencing a bold departure from traditional wealth-building norms as High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs) abandoning their fixation on foreign property and private residential rentals. Instead, they are turning their attention—and billions—inward, betting big on home-grown investment opportunities in technology, agriculture, data centres, and green energy.

According to the 2025 Kenya Edition of the Knight Frank Wealth Report, the country’s millionaires are increasingly self-made, …