Africa: Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change

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Rwanda	98.68%
Mauritius	88.43%
Nigeria	80.04%
Cape Verde	59.83%
Mozambique	48.51%
Burkina Faso	47.55%
Sierra Leone	43.85%
Ghana	37.92%
Zambia	29.10%
Angola	27.24%
Mali	21.90%
Namibia	20.46%
Benin	19.58%
Niger	18.41%
Togo	17.58%
Djibouti	13.01%
Burundi	9.01%
Gabon	6.29%
Malawi	4.05%
Madagascar	2.27%
Gambia	0.74%
Guinea-Bissau	0.26%
Botswana	-0.50%
Congo(Brazza)	-1.88%
Ethiopia	-4.34%
Senegal	-4.77%
Cote d'Ivoire	-7.74%
South Africa	-9.90%
Guinea	-10.59%
Tanzania	-15.34%
Uganda	-21.76%
Swaziland	-23.34%
Kenya	-23.46%
Cameroon	-28.28%
Mauritania	-36.12%
Eq. Guinea	-40.33%
Chad	-46.96%
CAR	-49.39%
Lesotho	-71.69%
Zimbabwe	-113.80%

Africa: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a countrys score on the Heritage Foundations freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

Greatly Improved
Improved
Nuetral
Worse
Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Statistics for Africa. Africa is a desert so far as house-price statistics are concerned. The exception is South Africa, where ABSA Group releases good house price data, and has a monthly house price index.