Key points about the World Habitat Day

  • World Habitat Day is celebrated the first Monday of October.
  • This year’s theme is “reaffirm the basic right of shelter and reflect on the transformation of urban environments”.
  • This year’s theme highlights the vital role of young people in creating a better urban future.
  • By 2030, 60 per cent of urban residents will be under the age of 18.

Leading real estate company Optiven is on course to achieve the company’s mandate to offer opportunities to investors in real estate and settle at least 300,000 people in their home by the year 2030. Optiven which has been in existence for 25 years this year, is leveraging on it’s customer needs and sustainability agenda as well as it’s vision to socially and economically empower the society, through it’s offering of properties within it’s portfolio.

Among the key features that set Optiven apart from the others is it’s intentionality to provide vast opportunities to investors ranging from the most affordable properties to the luxurious opulent properties. It is this aspect that has endeared Optiven to it’s customers with many citing the much embraced installment payments for various projects.

Cathrine Khasoa, Lead for Corporate Affairs at Optiven says, “the strategic decision to provide our investors with an opportunity to pay for their properties in installments is one of the ways we are able to achieve this year’s World Habitat theme, to reaffirm the basic right of shelter and reflect on the transformation of urban environments.” Optiven has previously been recognized for it’s inclusivity in enabling investors to enjoy the basic right of a home while improving their social economic status. https://www.optiven.co.ke/newsblogs/optiven-is-the-best-in-embracing-financial-inclusion/


ABOVE: Optiven staff led by Associate Directors Geoffrey Muturi and Lawrence Kesesi receive the Financial Inclusivity Award 2019 in Nairobi.

With regard to the need to transform urban environments as part of the observation of the 2024 World Habitat Day, Optiven is on course to provide ready to build, affordable and sustainable properties across it’s portfolio. To enable realization of this goal, Optiven launched the Go Green Initiative in the year 2020 to advocate and empower it’s investors to embrace and adapt environmental sustainability.

The initiative so far serves both the company and it’s investors for example through automating it’s processes, encouraging a paperless work environment and providing AI solutions to customers to interact with both the company and it’s products.

Mr. Geoffrey Muturi, Associate Director in Charge of Finance, Legal and ICT says, “Use of technology is one of the ways we are able to realize the expectations of our customers and to best serve their interests at their convenience and comfort. It is this engagement that saw Optiven launch it’s first Real Estate Chatbot in 2022”.


ABOVE: Optiven Managers join the Directors during the launch of Amani Chatbot in Nairobi in 2022.

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