Africa's property data is everywhere. We bring it together.

We turn fragmented public property listings into structured market data for emerging markets. Starting with Cape Verde.

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The Gap

If you're an investor looking at Africa, you can't see the market.

Global real estate is worth nearly $400 trillion. Africa holds 17% of the world's population and is urbanizing faster than any other continent. But to an investor sitting in London or Dubai, most of it is a blank map. Not because the value isn't there. Because no one has structured it.

$400T
The world's largest asset class.
001
17%
Africa's share of the world's population.
002
#1
Fastest-urbanizing continent on earth.
003
54
Countries, each with its own market.
004
The Opportunity

Property demand is rising fast. Market visibility is not.

Between 2020 and 2050, Africa is projected to add more urban residents than any other region — and far more than North America, Europe, and Latin America combined.

Net Urban Population Added, 2020 – 2050 UN DESA
Africa Where AREI is building
+900M
Asia ex-China
+600M
Latin America
+150M
North America
+80M
Europe
+15M
0250M500M750M900M+
Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects (2018) · Net urban population change 2020–2050, rounded Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects (rounded)
The Engine

We don't sell properties. We structure the data behind them.

Listings arrive messy — across languages, currencies, and formats. Our engine extracts, normalizes, and deduplicates every one into a single clean schema. When everything shares one structure, the market becomes readable — benchmarks, trends, and coverage that don't exist today.

The Model

Three surfaces. One engine.

The same structured data layer powers public transparency, data acquisition, and professional intelligence. Each surface serves a distinct role in the market ecosystem.

01 Free

Public Index Surface

Country-level market data and methodology, open to the public. The authority layer.

For Public, investors, media, researchers
Includes Index pages, listings, monthly signal, methodology
Role SEO authority, top of funnel
02 Free / Paid

Broker Tools

Submission, validation, and performance tools for brokers active in covered markets.

For Licensed brokers and agents
Includes Listing submission, AI validation, index visibility, benchmark
Role Data acquisition. Brokers get international reach.
03 Paid

Intelligence Layer

Decision-grade analysis for professional and institutional use. The revenue surface.

For Asset managers, developers, analysts
Includes Screener, confidence scoring, briefings, API, dashboards
Role Revenue. Intelligence for decision-grade analysis.
Live

Cape Verde Real Estate Index is Market 01.

Listing-based market data — monitored asking-price listings, source coverage, verification status, published methodology. Aggregated, cleaned, and published automatically.

Based on monitored asking-price listings. Not transaction prices or valuations.

Apartment
€55,000
One-bedroom flat in Estrela Do Mar
Santa Maria, Sal
Apartment
€74,000
1-bedroom flat in the centre of Sal Rei
Sal Rei, Boa Vista
Villa
€315,000
Villetta a Murdeira
Murdeira, Sal
Apartment
€89,500
Bright apartment near Angulo Beach
Paul, Santo Antão
Apartment
€90,000
Furnished 2-bed on the frontline
Sal Rei, Boa Vista
Land
€74,000
Terreno a Maio per costruzione
Vila Do Maio, Maio
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What's Next

One engine. One market at a time.

Cape Verde is live. More markets are in the pipeline. Every new market adds to the same clean dataset.

Each market brings its own quirks: local languages, broker networks, listing platforms. The engine absorbs them. Once a market is onboarded, ingestion, deduplication, and publication run automatically — and feed every product built on the data underneath.

Market Status v1
Market 01 → Cape Verde · Live Active
Market 02 Ghana · Selected · 2027 Selected
Market 03 Nigeria Research
Market 04 Morocco Research
Market 05 Senegal · Kenya Research
Coverage · 01 / 54 Engine · Ready
From the founder

“Africa’s real estate market isn’t lacking value — it’s lacking structure. The data exists, but no one has normalized it, scored it, or published it with a methodology you can cite.

AREI is the infrastructure layer that turns fragmented listings into investable market signal.”

Michael Ghebrehiwet
Michael Ghebrehiwet Founder, AREI LinkedIn →
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