The Acting Rent Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, has announced the nationwide rollout of a Rent Taskforce to ensure strict compliance with Ghana’s rent laws and promote fairness between landlords and ...
Accra rsquo;s rental market is one of the most dynamic and challenging in Ghana . With strong demand, limited supply, and a weak enforcement of existing rent laws, the balance of power in the landlord ...
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The first rent commissioner: A turning point or a test of enforcement?

By Dennis FRIMPONGFor more than six decades after the passage of Ghana’s Rent Act, 1963 (Act 220), the country operated a rent control system without a formally appointed Rent Commissioner. During ...
By Professor Felix Nikoi HammondFor many years, Ghana’s urban centers have experienced a subtle yet harmful issue: the deep-rooted dollarisation of the property market.This is not a new occurrence; ...
Every so often, you come across an economic situation so perverse, so utterly divorced from basic market logic, that you have ...
By Mildred Siabi-MensahTakoradi, Feb. 6, GNA-Government staff at the Ministry annex near Telecel office are being “fed with ...
The Ministry for Works and Housing is pursuing multiple strategies to reduce the country’s 1.83 million housing deficit, including affordable housing ...
SADC leaders should push for state-led traceability and regional compliance mechanisms COMMENT | JANE NALUNGA | The global trade architecture is currently undergoing a shift to one increasingly ...
Fifty years ago, parts of West Africa exported food and cash crops to Asia. Today, the economic gap is stark. In an interview with Nad Sivaramen, development economist Joe Studwell argues that policy ...
The implementation of Nigeria's 2025 Tax Act, effective from January, has sparked a shift in the country's business software market, ...
By: Hellen Grace AkomahKwame had just received his first salary. It wasn’t extravagant, but it represented years of hard work, late-night studying, and sacrifice. Before he could even plan how to ...
When Risevest surveyed 20,020 people across 12 countries for its 2025 Cost of Living Report, it wasn’t just looking for numbers. Out of those, 19,840 responses were usable. But behind every percentage ...