Commitment from the government and all stakeholders will make more impacts on the real estate sector of the economy, which at the moment is performing far lower than its inherent potentials, capable of propelling the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In a forecast of the real estate sector, the Managing Director, Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, Mr. Adetokunbo Ajayi, who ...

I asked a colleague in the office how he fairs with his landlord (awkward question you will say…LOL) and the response to that question, which came in form of a story, erupted both deductive and inductive argument. The gist goes thus: “My colleague resides in a twin duplex apartment whereby his landlord occupies one and him the other. The twin ...

Afriland Properties Plc, the concessionaire of the Falomo Shopping Mall has stated that the shopping mall was not leased to it for 50 years for N50 million as widely reported in the media. In a statement released and signed by Uzo Oshogwe, MD/CEO Afriland Properties Plc, the company stated it rather signed a deal with the Lagos State Development and ...

The owners of houses allegedly built on school land along Constitution Road in the Kaduna metropolis, have dragged the state government to court for marking their houses for demolition. PremiumTimes reported last week that Governor Nasir El-rufai had allegedly spared some structures erected on lands belonging to public institutions on Constitution Road, and warned agency responsible to avoid blanket marking ...

Mass housing deficit across the country have been attributed to weak mortgage laws, which does not encourage long term credit facility for prospective housing developers, as it is done in developed countries. Addressing the media on Monday, on its 2015 Archibuilt edition, with the theme: Solution for Everyday Living, in Abuja, the Chairman of Archibuilt Development Service Limited (ADSL), Mrs. ...

Oscar pistorius is expected to be released from prison Today, Friday, August 21. The paralympic gold medallist, will be taken to a three-storey mansion in one of the wealthiest suburbs of South Africa’s capital Pretoria, where he will serve the rest of his 5years sentence in a form of house arrest. Pistorius, 29, is expected to wear an electronic tracking ...

These are not comfortable times for some ‘super rich’ civil servants as they are said to be rushing to sell their choice houses and state-of-the-art automobiles in order to avoid losing the properties to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft crusade, ghanaweb reports. There are indications that the mass disposal of property is out of fear of losing properties to Buhari’s ...

Owners of properties at the Irewolede Estate in Ado Ekiti sued the governor, Ayodele Fayose, claiming N20 million damages for pains inflicted on them by the government after they were forcefully evicted from their homes for allegedly defaulting in their mortgage payments. The claimants, who were evicted by the Ekiti State Government two weeks ago for failing to make full ...

You remember Soka? In March, 2014, a house of horror was discovered in a forest in Ibadan. Some people call it, the place of skull, the evil shrine…others think it’s the valley of dry bones and the killers’ hideouts. Call it any of the aforementioned, it would be a perfect name to describe Soka forest in Ibadan, an isolated bush ...

Today we will be talking about the importance of having a marketing plan in real estate. This is the second topic in the series; Sales strategies in real estate. I have come across people who do agency and tarry on with their real estate business without a good marketing plan. This could be one of the reason they find it ...