{"id":460422,"date":"2018-02-01T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/ghanas-housing-crisis-commercial-areas-abandoned\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:30:24","slug":"ghanas-housing-crisis-commercial-areas-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/01\/ghanas-housing-crisis-commercial-areas-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s housing crisis: Commercial areas abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/23237890.295.jpg\" alt=\"Accra Office\" title=\"Accra Office\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The demand for offices has seen a corresponding surge as Ghana\u2019s economy expands<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517484624_165_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">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\u2019s problems and how they can be solved.<\/p>\n<p><b>Click the link to listen to full audio report.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>play videoThe demand for offices has seen a corresponding surge as Ghana\u2019s economy expands 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}