Ondo state government announced last week that the design for dualisation of Ikare Township road has commenced in earnest, while contractors, recently jump-started a 2.5-kilometers of road within the Igbokoda Township as part of its urban renewal programme. Government officials said necessary earthwork on the Igbokoda Township project has reached advanced stage while the entire work done was about 41per ...
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Britain’s first million pound ‘affordable’ housing property goes on sale
Britain’s first £1million ‘affordable’ housing property has gone on the market but its prospective buyer will need to earn £82,000-a-year to cover the cost. The three-bedroom flat in Hackney, east London, has come under fire from housing charities after being valued at £1,025,000 with would-be homeowners offered a 25 per cent stake in the property. It means that if prospective ...
Read More »Tackling Nigeria’s housing deficit: Rock City converts Rent into Mortgage
In order to tackle the housing need in Nigeria, Rock of Ages Properties, a subsidiary of Chicason Group suggests that Nigerians should consider making their rent to serve as mortgage.. The Chief Operating Officer of Rock of Ages, Mr. Francis Onwuemena explained, “An average Nigerian worker pays house rent that can actually be converted into mortgage to be able to ...
Read More »Canadian consumer confidence rises on real estate optimism
Optimism that Canadian home prices haven’t hit their peak and the economy has better days ahead drove consumer sentiment to the biggest weekly gain in more than a year, weekly telephone polling shows. The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index climbed to 53.2 in the week ending Aug. 21, up from 52.2 in the prior survey, the biggest increase since May ...
Read More »Nigeria’s graft fighting commission accused of diverting $15 billion in recovered assets
The chairman of Nigeria’s corruption-fighting Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is appearing before the Senate to answer accusations that he diverted billions of dollars. Ibrahim Lamorde is responding to allegations that he and other commission officers diverted 1 trillion naira (about $15 billion) in recovered assets with the collusion of banks and real estate agents. A commission statement Tuesday said ...
Read More »Before you Purchase that Lagos Property – 2
THE ACQUISITION/PURCHASE TRANSACTION PROPER This is the second topic in the series – Before you purchase that Lagos property Last week we talked about the legal framework preceding the acquisition of land in Nigeria with reference to Lagos. This week we will be looking at the processes involved in the purchase and acquisition of such property. Now, where the Purchaser’s ...
Read More »Top 10 Places the living should not visit
WARNING!!! The content of this article is no where close to being pleasant. Readers are strongly advised not to read during or after bedtime. Do you know there are some places in the world that would give you cold feet if you wander there? Places where people and even animals go to meet their end. There is even a place ...
Read More »Nigeria’s MDG Office Constructs One Borehole with N154 Million
Reports have revealed how Nigeria’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) used a shocking amount of N154.2 million to construct a single borehole in Abuja. According to Premium Times, the MDG spent a whooping N154.2 million on drilling just a single borehole which one can averagely do for N1.5 million in Abuja. A hydrology firm who talked to Premium Times made it known that that ...
Read More »Cross River, Irish investors collaborate on 5,000 housing units
Barely two weeks after Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade, led a trade delegation to the Republic of Ireland, property developers from that country have arrived Calabar to concretise a partnership deal to build about 5,000 modular homes. Already, modalities have been worked out between the Cross River State government and an Irish building firm, Affordable Building Concept International, ...
Read More »U.K. Property Seen in Bubble Amid ‘Delusional’ Rent Bets
U.K. commercial and residential property values are in bubble territory again and vulnerable to any tightening in credit markets, according to Mike Prew, an analyst at Jefferies Group LLC. Investors have been paying too much for real estate outside southeast England in the “delusional” belief that rents will climb strongly, Prew said in a note to clients. He downgraded retail ...
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