Discretion
Many of our clients are public figures, and every brief is treated as confidential. Viewings are private, records are sealed, and names never appear in our marketing.
2011
Founded · Westlands
Our Story
One Office, One Conviction
Kilele opened in 2011 as a single office on Woodvale Grove, Westlands, with a conviction that was unfashionable at the time: a brokerage should work for the buyer. Sellers had plenty of representation; buyers had a phone number on a signboard.
Fifteen years later the conviction hasn't changed — only the map has. From that one office we now serve clients in eleven counties, from Karen to the Coast, and across the diaspora in the UK, the Gulf and North America. More than 1,200 families have been placed, and KSh 3 billion and more has passed, cleanly searched and properly registered, through our files.
Every agent who carries a Kilele card is registered with the Estate Agents Registration Board, and every purchase we touch begins with an official search on Ardhisasa. That is the whole philosophy: the summit, reached properly.
Four Values, No Exceptions
Due Diligence
We search every title on Ardhisasa, verify beacons on the ground and confirm rates are cleared before money moves. If a file cannot be cleaned, we walk away.
Craft
We publish honest photography, accurate floor areas and true prices. The way we present a home is exactly the way you will receive it.
Follow-Through
A signed sale agreement is the middle of our job, not the end. We supervise the transfer to registration and hand over keys, titles and utilities in person.
The Road Up
Milestones, 2011 — Today
2011
Kilele is founded in a single office on Woodvale Grove, Westlands — a buyers' side from day one.
2014
Our one hundredth residence is placed, entirely by referral and repeat clients.
2017
The Diaspora Desk opens, serving Kenyans in the UK, the US and the Gulf.
2020
The Property Management arm launches with its first forty doors under care.
2024
The KSh 2B mark is crossed in lifetime transactions — and the third billion follows within the year.
2026
Eleven counties covered, from the foothills of Limuru to the Diani shoreline.
The People Who Answer the Phone
No call centres, no junior handovers. The four people below supervise every file personally.
Wanjiru Kamau
Founder & Managing DirectorFounded Kilele in 2011 after a decade in Nairobi valuation practice, and still leads every acquisition brief personally.
David Mwangi
Head of Legal & ConveyancingAdvocate of the High Court; supervises title searches, sale agreements and every registration through to completion.
Brian Otieno
Head of SalesFifteen years selling Nairobi's leafy suburbs — negotiates for buyers first, always, and answers his own phone.
Amina Hassan
Coast Desk LeadRuns our Nyali office and the Diani portfolio, from beachfront villas to fully managed apartments.
8,400
Indigenous Trees
A Tree for Every Title
For every transfer Kilele completes, we fund the planting and two-year aftercare of indigenous seedlings. To date, 8,400 trees stand across Kiambu and Kajiado — mugumo, cedar and olive, planted with county forest teams and school groups.
Titles change hands; the ground stays. It is the least a land business owes the land.
They talked me out of a bad plot and into a good house. Who does that? A firm that plans to still be here in twenty years.
Begin the Conversation
Tell us where you want to live — or what you need your land to do. The first conversation costs nothing and usually saves a fortune.