MEXICO HOUSING – Although social policy has helped to contain poverty in Mexico, more efforts are needed to increase the quality of life for all Mexicans, President Enrique Peña Nieto said Monday. The president spoke during the inauguration of 10 rehabilitation works for housing projects in Mexico City. Dynamism in the Mexican economy is fundamental for reducing the level of ...

Enugu State govt. approves 10% equity contribution to alleviate workers’ housing needs Towards reducing the accommodation problem to some category of civil servants, the Enugu State Government on Thursday approved N35 million as its 10 per cent equity contribution for one-bed room apartments at the newly completed Elim Housing Estate at Ibagwa in Nike.. However, the Commissioner for Information, Dr. ...

Global property partners unfazed by Trump bombast Real estate tycoon and White House hopeful Donald Trump has lost high-profile US contracts over his hardline anti-immigrant stance, but internationally the row has yet to damage the Trump brand. When he disparaged undocumented immigrants from Mexico as criminals and rapists in June, several American groups — NBC television, retailer Macy’s, the PGA ...

The menace of Omo-onile in Nigeria have been and still remains worrisome. The extortion of innocent property owners by touts and  street urchins known as Omo-Onile or Agajungbale in different parts of Lagos State has brought to the fore the nuisance which the group, which calls itself the “sons of the soil “ and “children of original land owners,” is ...

The private equity and other pooled funds that have made century-old buildings some of the hottest properties in Manhattan have been cashing out at double the rate of a few years ago, but strong buying from other investors has assuaged fears that the market is peaking. The institutional investors and real estate investment trusts that are taking private equity’s place ...

Renewed Ebonyi, Abia boundary dispute – One person was shot dead and many injured in renewed clashes between Ishiagu community in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state and Lokpanta community, Umunochi LGA of the neighboring Abia state over boundary dispute premiumtimesng reports Also one person identified as Chukwuma Akwa was declared missing. The renewed boundary dispute between the two ...

The controversy over the temporary relocation of an agency of Kwara State government to the temporary site of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN)  has been resolved by the state government and the University authorities, Abdulwahab Oba, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kwara Governor, has said. At a meeting with management of the University led by its Vice Chancellor, Prof. ...

Two years after a tribunal of inquiry into collapsed buildings in Lagos State was set up, the building collapse tribunal report has not been acted upon, while more defective buildings are going down, MAUREEN IHUA-MADUENYI writes A tribunal of inquiry into collapsed buildings was set up by the Lagos State Government on May 20, 2013 to determine the causes of ...

According to the latest forecast from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, A benign economic backdrop should underpin a gentle improvement in housing and mortgage market activity in the coming months. Propertywire.com reports that the CML market review report pointed out that this follows a softer patch over the past year, which has dragged down our expectations for gross mortgage lending ...

The Nigerian Institute of Building has said, there is a need to create more awareness about the National Vocational Qualification Framework, an initiative of the National Board for Technical Education that was approved by the Federal Executive Council for the qualification, management, administration and accreditation of builders. The NIOB in a statement signed by its national president, Mr. Tunde Lasabi, ...