Funguo

Every listing here belongs to the person who answers the phone.

Houses and apartments in every county in Kenya, from Nairobi and Mombasa to Lodwar and Lamu. Owners publish free. Agents pay, and are labelled. Nobody sits in the middle taking a cut of your rent.

Funguo is Swahili for keys

  • Search by neighbourhood, price, bedrooms — or by what decides a Kenyan let: borehole, backup generator, DSQ, gated compound.
  • Work out the true monthly cost before you view, buying or renting.
  • Save homes, write private notes, compare three side by side.

Three ways in

One database, three doors. Which one you want depends on whether you are looking for a home, putting one up, or checking what other people put up.

For seekers

The Funguo app

Search, filter, compare and cost out a home. Sign in with your phone number — that is the whole account.

  • Rank by commute, garden, viewing day or how recently it was posted
  • Saved homes, notes and comparisons never leave your own browser
  • Contact goes straight to the owner, by phone or WhatsApp
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For owners & agents

Funguo Partners

Put a home up, add photos, watch it through review, and mark it taken when someone signs.

  • Owners: five listings, free, no account fee ever
  • Agents: a paid plan raises the limit and turns on the Agent tag
  • Upload an ID once; a moderator checks it by hand
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For the Funguo team

Moderation

The queue every new listing lands in, the ID documents waiting to be checked, and the reports seekers file.

  • Nothing goes public until a person approves it
  • Verification badges are granted here, never by the account itself
  • Admin accounts only — the database enforces it, not the page
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How a listing gets here

The same four steps whether you own one flat or manage two hundred.

Sign in with a phone

A six digit code. No password to forget, no profile to fill in.

Put the home up

Price, features, description, up to eight photos taken on the phone in your hand.

A moderator reads it

It sits in the queue, invisible, until a person approves it. That rule lives in the database.

Seekers call you

Your number is not in the public listing data. A seeker asks for it one home at a time.

What it costs

Owners never pay. Agents do, and the tag on their listings says so — that is the whole difference between the two account types.

Owner

Free

5 listings

For someone letting or selling their own place.

Agent — Msingi

KES 2,500 a month

15 listings

One agent starting out.

Agent — Pro

KES 7,500 a month

60 listings

A working agency's list.

Agency Plus runs KES 15,000 a month for 200 listings. Plans are paid by M-Pesa and run 30 days from the payment — nothing auto-renews, because an STK push is a one-time prompt, not a stored card. Boosting a single listing costs KES 499 for a week or KES 1,500 for a month, and a boosted listing is always labelled Featured — never confused with the verified badge.

What we do not do

Worth saying plainly, because most listing sites do the opposite.

No selling your number on

Owner phone numbers are not in the public listing data at all. A seeker presses a button for one number, for one home, and that request is counted. Scraping every landlord's number means asking two hundred times and being seen doing it.

No tracking

No analytics, no third-party scripts, no cookie banner to dismiss. Your saved homes, private notes and comparisons stay in your own browser and are never sent anywhere.

No self-granted badges

The "ID checked" badge comes from a moderator looking at a document by hand. An account cannot give itself that badge, an agent plan, or a bigger listing limit — the database refuses.

No pretending about estimates

The cost calculator uses the reducing-balance formula, stamp duty at 4% inside a municipality and 2% outside, and today's typical bank terms. Rates and county charges move. Every figure is an estimate.