{"id":397039,"date":"2018-02-01T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397039"},"modified":"2018-01-31T21:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:05:21","slug":"ghanas-housing-crisis-new-developing-commercial-areas-abandoned-high-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397039","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s housing crisis: New developing commercial areas abandoned over high cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ghana\u2019s economy expands, the demand for offices has also seen a corresponding surge, particularly in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p>To start a business in Accra requires a strategic move in selecting the location of an office space to make it easier in meeting a targeted market.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cost and supply of commercial properties in Accra is affecting the demand as low cost areas in the city are congested while new developing commercial areas are abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Segbefia takes a look at the demand for offices in Accra in the next of our series dubbed \u201cGhana\u2019s Housing Crisis\u201d which focuses on the industry&#8217;s problems and how they can be solved.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/citi97-3\/ghanas-housing-crisis-new-developing-commercial-areas-abandoned-over-high-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click the link to listen to full audio report.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/392574786&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lawrence Segbefia\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ghana\u2019s economy expands, the demand for offices has also seen a corresponding surge, particularly in the Greater Accra region. To start a business in Accra requires a strategic move in selecting the location of an office space to make it easier in meeting a targeted market. However, the cost and supply of commercial properties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":397040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}