Nairobi, July 25 -- At one point, Kenya's city residents may have probably sung along to 'The Jeffersons' theme song 'Movin on up, to the deluxe apartment up in the sky, having finally gotten a piece of the pie.'
But as Covid-19 eats into incomes, a majority of those who were paying high rents in plush apartments are moving to smaller, cheaper or unfinished homes in the outskirts.
Movers say there has been a shift in the market and Kenyans are no longer relocating to deluxe apartments as before.
Nellions Moving and Relocations company says a recent surge in home relocation in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has either been a downgrade to cheaper neighbourhoods or homes built out of the city, for retirement.
"There has been an incre...