Saruel Pharmacy Apartments

In Embakasi Village, Saruel Pharmacy Apartments runs on the currency students actually have. The studios — 22 of them — start at KES 8,000 a month, pre-paid electricity keeps the bills transparent, and the ground-floor shop means you're never more than one flight of stairs from milk or airtime. This is a five-storey block built in 2023, still settling into its rhythm. Laundry hangs from the balconies on the upper units, the kind of lived-in detail that signals a building people actually use, not one waiting for an Instagram moment. Tiles underfoot, open-plan kitchens that give you counter space without pretending to be chef-grade, and manned security at the gate. Some units are still finding their finish — construction dust hasn't fully cleared from a few corners — but that's the trade when you're paying Embakasi prices in a year-old building. The two-bedrooms with balconies go for KES 18,000, the one-bedrooms for KES 10,000. If you're juggling campus, side hustles, and a budget that doesn't stretch to Kilimani, Saruel Pharmacy Apartments is the kind of place that lets you save the difference.