About Us

Vestafi began in 2022 with a quiet but unsettling realization: apartments generate rent every single month, yet meaningful ownership remains unreachable for many capable, disciplined people, especially those whose capital is fragmented across borders, commitments, or institutions that move too slowly.

In Uganda, over 71% of urban households rent, not temporarily, but structurally. At the same time, the country faces a housing deficit of approximately 2.4 million units, a gap that continues to widen as urbanisation accelerates faster than formal supply. To merely stabilise this deficit, Uganda would need to deliver close to 300,000 new housing units every year, a scale that individual ownership and traditional financing models cannot realistically absorb on their own.

Rather than treating this as a policy debate or a fundraising story, Hakiza Ronald approached it as an operational question: what works in practice, when distance, scale, and accountability all matter? Hakiza Ronald began by acquiring and managing apartments himself, learning firsthand the realities of rent, occupancy, maintenance cycles, cash flow discipline, and reporting long before inviting anyone else into the structure.

What later became Vestafi grew quietly from that discipline, first among a small trusted circle, anchored in real apartments, real tenants, real expenses, and rental income that was tracked, documented, and handled responsibly. There were no projections without receipts, and no expansion without operational proof.

As the structure proved itself, participation expanded deliberately into a private, invitation-based circle built on alignment, patience, and shared expectations. Collective participation was not positioned as a shortcut, but as a practical response to a housing market where scale, governance, and execution matter more than individual effort alone.