Are you having a hard time with your real estate business? Are you on the verge of giving up? Do you think there is no hope for success in your real estate business anymore? You need to take a short pause and think; the grass is not always greener on the other side, but with patience and a little more ...

When it comes to student housing it is not enough that a student claims studentship of an institution. The landlord should go the extra mile in getting every information necessary before he grants such student tenancy rights. Building houses close to a student population and constructing halls of residence for students has become a goldmine over the years regardless of ...

Despite the softening in the economy of the Eurozone, the housing markets in Europe came off strongest in the second quarter of this year such that of the five markets that witnessed the highest housing price rises, three were from Europe while the other two from Asia. On the flipside, the United Arab Emirate (UAE), particularly Dubai – arguably the ...

The 1st Vice-President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Dr. Joshua Patunola-Ajayi, has said that it has become necessary for members of the body to have a documented standard valuation framework that meets international standards. Patunola-Ajayi spoke at the public presentation of the books: ‘Code of Professional Conduct for Estate Surveyors and Valuers & its explanatory notes’, ‘The Valuation ...

There is something called Social Due Diligence, you have to learn how to do it. Please learn from my story of how I almost lost out in a real estate scam. In this organisation, I was having about 38 staff strength. I was having branch offices, everything was going fine until we stumbled into a business with one of our ...

The developer of the passive house prototype, Eco-village in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Chinwe Ohajuruka, has been named a finalist in the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards’ business plan competition. Ohajuruka will be representing Nigeria and the West Africa sub-region at the awards that hold mid-October at a joint Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards and Women’s Forum in Deauville, France. A statement ...

An architectural firm, Consultants Collaborative Partnership, has been given the ISO 9001:2008 certification for consultancy services in the field of architecture as well as civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering by Bureaux Veritas Nigeria. The Managing Partner, CCP, Mr. Femi Williams, said at the presentation of the certificate that it came from the need to define a system that encouraged ...

Ogun state aims to rehabilitate the Army barracks access roads as soon as all necessary arrangements has been concluded. Mr. Ayokunle Ewuoso, said Governor Ibikunle Amosun had already given his nod for the commencement of the fencing of the barracks, adding that officials of the ministry would soon visit the place to assess the state of the roads with the ...

Luxury Student hostel You know how we assume our schooling period as part of our humble beginnings and don’t need much asides our small personal space to sleep, read, bath and maybe cook? Owners of these luxury hostel apartments do not think that way or perhaps this luxury hostels are for successful people in their chosen career who just want to ...

It’s called Haohan Qiao—Brave Men’s Bridge in English. It is a glass bridge precisely glass bottomed. The 300 long overpass in Shiniuzai National Park in Southern China has a bottom made of glass, allowing walkers to see the stomach-churning view below their feet.   The recently completed span is a glass walkway suspended on a stomach-flipping 180 meters (590 feet) ...