We're a Nairobi property firm with one obsession: take the chaos out of owning and renting Kenyan homes — and replace it with something quiet, honest, and accountable.
Our name reads three ways at once, by design. In Japanese, 土地 (tochi) means earth, ground, the land itself. In Hausa and Yoruba it carries the sense of light and praise. We chose a word that sat at the meeting point — because property work, done well, is both the ground beneath a family and the clarity that lets them rest on it.
Both of us grew up in households where “the property manager” was a verb you said with a sigh. Receipts arrived months late, repair bills doubled overnight, and the only way to know what was happening to your own building was to fly home.
When we returned to Nairobi in 2022 — one of us from London, the other from Tokyo — we expected things had moved on. They had, in places. The good agents were good. But the spread between best and average was enormous, and the average was where most owners and tenants lived.
“We didn't want to make another estate agency. We wanted to make the boring, repeatable parts so quiet that the work becomes invisible.”
That's the brief. Operate to the same Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors standards a London family office would expect. Speak the language a diaspora owner in Boston speaks. Pay rent the way a 28-year-old in Kileleshwa actually pays for everything else — through M-Pesa, in their phone, in three seconds.
We launched in 2022 with eleven properties and a borrowed desk in Westlands. Today we look after 187 units for 64 owners — about a third of whom live outside Kenya — and have sold a further 53 homes through our brokerage arm. Every owner has the same dashboard. Every tenant has the same app. Every month closes on the same schedule.
The Japanese for land, the Hausa for light, the Yoruba for praise. Three meanings, one job: make ownership feel as solid as the ground, and as light as a lamp.
Borrowed from the trades we admire — the surveyors, the carpenters, the watchmakers.
If your roof needs replacing, we will say so — even if it costs us the listing. If your asking price is a fantasy, we will quote you a real one. Owners come to us because their previous agent told them what they wanted to hear. We will tell you what is true.
We grow slowly, on purpose. A property manager who covers eighty units cannot know them. We cap each manager at thirty so the building, its quirks, and the people inside it are still in one head — not lost in a system.
Good property management is invisible. The rent arrives. The boiler is serviced before it breaks. The lease renewal lands a fortnight before it’s needed. If you ever forget we’re there, we’re doing our job.
Kibwe Mwangi
Co-founder · CEO
Fifteen years in London commercial property. RICS chartered. Returned to Nairobi in 2022.
Aiko Saito-Otieno
Co-founder · Operations
Previously at Mitsui Fudosan, Tokyo. Designed the Tochi operating manual end to end.
Wanjiku Karanja
Head of Lettings
Westlands and Kilimani portfolio. Will visit a unit before signing a single owner.
James Ouko
Head of Sales
Eight years as an estate agent in Nairobi. Knows every architect, planner and notary in town.
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors valuation and management standards.
Fully registered with the Estate Agents Registration Board of Kenya.
Internal QMS audited quarterly. Public certification scheduled 2026.
Direct paybill integration. Same-day rent settlement to owner accounts.
Whether you own a single flat or a small portfolio — or you're looking for somewhere to live — we'd like to hear from you.
