Tamarind Properties Ltd is a medium-sized real estate development company specializing in the development of multi-unit residential estates in Kenya and Uganda.The company has an impressive track record in the real estate sector in Kenya. It started off with Tamarind Court (20 apartments) in Lavington in 2006, then Tamarind Gardens (17 townhouses) in Lavington in 2007, followed by Evergreen Court (24 apartments) in Kileleshwa in 2008, and then Tamarind Meadows on Mombasa Road (208 maisonettes and townhouses) in the same year. In February 2011, the firm broke ground for Tamarind Valley in Embakasi (830 houses plus a shopping mall).The firm is presently in the process of acquiring a 50 acres plot at Bamburi, in Mombasa County, where it plans to construct approximately 1200 housing units plus a shopping centre. The firm is also in the process of acquiring two plots in Nakuru, 13 and 18 acres respectively, where it plans to develop a total of 500 units (apartments, maisonettes and townhouses). The projects, in both Nakuru and Mombasa, are presently in the conceptual and planning stages. The company has achieved recognition industry-wide both in Kenya and worldwide, especially among the Kenyan Diaspora, for delivering residential houses which are of high quality and at competitive and affordable prices .The firm has won several Awards in the real estate industry during the annual Kenya and London Homes Exhibitions for the last six consecutive years. These Awards can be viewed in the company’s offices in Westlands, Nairobi.The company specializes in homes that are stylish and finished to a very high standard. Good workmanship, excellent energy cost saving measures, and a multitude of functional features such as solar water heating, waste water recycling for irrigation, a borehole, generous use of trees and shrubs and recreation areas, are incorporated in all the developments by Tamarind.