One of the leading professional bodies in the Nigerian real estate industry is the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), a non-profit, voluntary, professional body established by a couple of surveyors who had their professional training in the UK and obtained the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors certification. The institution, which was created in 1969, was set up ...

Unfortunately, the real-estate-agent business is saddled with a poor reputation. According to the real estate agents surveyed by consumerreports.org, that reputation is sometimes earned. Here are a few of the top bad behaviors the real estate agents surveyed say they’ve witnessed, all of which breach the ethical code of Realtors . They’re listed in the order of how frequently they ...

The President , Council for the Regualtion of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) Mr kashim Ali, has called for adequate funding and effective monitoring of mortgage financing institutions to ensure that their services are accessible to more Nigerians. COREN president, who was speaking to journalists in Abuja on the state of the housing sector development in Nigeria, noted that so many ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has raised alarm over what it described as the alleged plot by the state government to sell the Nigerian Army Barracks in Ikpoba Hill, Benin City, due to alleged lack of funds for capital development. State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, also described the approval of the 27.5 percent allowance ...

On a sunny Thursday afternoon in November 2014, Nonso Ofole, a motor sports park entrepreneur, arrived at his project site in Abuja to a great shocker – a Julius Berger-owned earth-mover was clearing the site he said is duly his. Julius Berger, is a German-owned Nigerian-based construction firm. What followed after Mr. Ofole observed the construction company allegedly trespassing his ...

We promised and we are delivering. We are bringing to you the FIRST EVER REAL ESTATE FICTION SERIES. Through this series you will be exposed to a lot of things tenants and landlords go through with each other, as well as what real estate agents and practitioners go through trying to make a living and how all these affects you ...

As a way to effectively handle the current huge housing deficit in the country, the government is collaborating with the private sector through reputable agencies and associations. One of such is the Real Estate Developer’s Association of Nigeria (NIGERIA), an agency tasked principally with the responsibility of facilitating the delivery of affordable mass housing in the country. The association has ...

Reducing housing deficits requires a number of essential ingredients to be in place to ensure a well-functioning housing finance system. This means achieving macroeconomic stability, effective legal and regulatory infrastructure, and ensuring appropriate levels of government intervention and support. In Nigeria with its underdeveloped housing finance systems or systems that only provide access to finance for high-income households, forcing low-income ...

Unemployment is an epidemic in Nigeria right? Or so I have heard. I live in Lagos and I have a job, so I shouldn’t complain. Wish that were so. Don’t get me wrong, I love my chosen field, at least unlike many of my peers am actually doing what I made up my mind to do, and then am working ...

The Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), an umbrella body of real estate professionals referred to as ‘land surveyors’, says it is strategizing to deal with pseudo-practitioners commonly called quacks. The institution explains that it is planning a country-wide education of its members at the state branches, through seminars and workshops, to make them understand what they are expected to do ...