Real Estate

A road announced in 2001 still isn't finished. Yet, land along its path has already gone through a complete speculative...

Land fragmentation in Nepal rarely makes headlines. Yet it's reshaping the country from the ground up, quite literally. Across urban...

In Chyasmityar, a village in Khotang district, residents fetch water from more than three kilometers away and store it carefully...

The vertical housing shift sounds simple on paper. Cities run out of land, so people move upward into apartments. In...

Urban centers worldwide face a growing challenge today. Housing costs are rising fast. Wages often fail to keep up. City...

Trucks queue for days outside Nepal's busiest dry port. Not because customs is slow, but because there's simply nowhere to...

There's even a folk song about it. "Jagga Dalal," by Rabin Lamichhane and Sita Shrestha, captures a very Nepali reality....

Drive through Nepal's hill districts today, and you'll notice something odd. Terraced fields that once fed entire villages now sit...

Nepal's municipalities are sitting on a resource they can't fully capture. That resource is property tax, and the gap between...

In Nepal, one small red document can decide whether a family gets a business loan, builds a house, or secures...