Where demand outruns supply in Uganda.
Searches on Uganda Property Centre measured against the listings live to meet them, 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026: where people search and find little or nothing, what they asked for, and what they said they could pay.
Search pressure across Uganda
Most competitive areas
Most competitive districts for rentals
Most competitive districts for homes for sale
Searches in the window divided by the listings live on 2 Nov 2026 that a searcher could actually rent or buy — published, priced whole, in UGX. The index puts the national rate at 100.
Unmet demand: where searches find nothing
Where rentals are hardest to find
Where homes for sale are hardest to find
A search found nothing when the page it landed on listed no properties. "Mostly" names the bed count and budget band most of those searches asked for; searches with no bed count or budget stated are counted but not described.
Budgets against asking prices
Searchers furthest below asking, rentals
The typical budget is the median maximum price searchers stated, from at least 50 searches that stated one; the asking price is the median of the live listings. "Within budget" is the share of those listings priced at or under the typical budget.
Bedroom mismatch
Bedroom mismatch in Uganda
Bedroom mismatch in Central Region
Each bar is the share of searches asking for that bed count minus the share of live listings offering it, in percentage points: to the right, more people want it than the market lists; to the left, the reverse. Searches with no bed count stated, and listings with no bedrooms recorded, are left out of both shares.
Where the enquiries go
Where the rent enquiries go
Where the sale enquiries go
Enquiries are contacts made through the site, counted once per person, listing, channel and day, over the 28 days before the latest scoring night (1 Nov 2026), divided by the listings live on 2 Nov 2026.
Furnished and serviced rentals
The share of rent searches that asked for a furnished or serviced home, against the share of live rent listings that offer one.
Three things shaping demand right now
Kampala is the tightest rental market
6.1 searches for every live rent listing, against 12.4 nationally.
See Kampala33.9% of sale searches in Luweero found nothing
37 of 109 searches landed on an empty page — mostly 3 bedroom · USh 100M to USh 150M.
See LuweeroRent budgets in Kampala sit 4% below asking
Searchers typically set a maximum of USh 1.3M against a median asking price of USh 1.4M; 49% of listings within the typical budget.
See KampalaQuestions this report answers
Where is rental demand highest relative to supply in Uganda?
Kampala recorded 6.1 searches for every live rent listing between 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026, the highest of any district with at least 100 searches and 20 listings.
How often do rent searches in Uganda find nothing?
23.4% of the 3,827 rent searches recorded between 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026 returned no listings; mostly 1 bedroom · USh 1M to USh 1.5M.
How do rent budgets compare with asking prices in Uganda?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was USh 1.3M, 7% above asking the median asking price of USh 1.2M; 52% of listings within the typical budget.
How often do sale searches in Uganda find nothing?
15.1% of the 7,733 sale searches recorded between 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026 returned no listings; mostly 3 bedroom · USh 150M to USh 200M.
How do sale budgets compare with asking prices in Uganda?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was USh 162M, 61% below asking the median asking price of USh 420M; 28% of listings within the typical budget.
How is this report measured?
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Uganda Property Centre between 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in UGX and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
How we measure demand against supply.
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Uganda Property Centre between 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in UGX and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
No individual search or searcher is published; every figure is a count or a share over an area. Enquiries are counted the way the quarterly market report counts them — once per person, listing, channel and day.
For asking prices, see our average property prices and the quarterly market reports.
Using this data.
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Source: Uganda Property Centre, Where demand outruns supply in Uganda, https://ugandapropertycentre.com/market-trends/demand-trends/all-property
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