UAE-based real estate website Bayut.com has announced that it has closed a $20 million Series C venture round, four months after its Series B funding that added $9 million to its finances. The funding comes from one of Bayut’s current investors, a fund which focuses on frontier and emerging markets with over $1 billion in assets under management, Bayut said ...

The Idaho Montana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has honored local and regional landscape architectural firms in its latest top-projects competition. Idaho winners included: Excellence Award: Scentsy Commons, Phase Three Office Tower. Firm: CTA Inc. General design category. Honor Award: St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center. Firm: South Landscape Architecture. General design category. Honor Award: Silver Creek Watershed, Annual Reporting. ...

According to Daily Sun, Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Udoh were killed in a fire incident at their home in Bayelsa. Narrating the sad incident, Udoh, who is a commercial motorcyclist, said on the day of the incident, he had returned from work and had asked his daughter to buy him some drugs. He said his wife who sells ...

Over 200 shops were destroyed in an early fire incident that happened at the Sapele Main Market this morning. Goods and money worth millions of Naira were destroyed in the fire. Cause of the fire is yet to be established. See photos below:  

No fewer than 85 exhibitors from 14 countries have indicated interest to participate in the forthcoming maiden International Trade Show AfricaBuild, slated for Lagos from 16 to 18, February, 2015. The exhibition, which tends to showcase the latest technologies and machineries in construction, building equipment, building materials, interior finishing materials and tools seeks to expose Nigerians to the array of ...

Folorunsho Alakija has expanded the frontiers of success by constantly challenging herself and beating her own records. Proceeding on the principle that only those who attempt the odd can achieve the impossible, Alakija has pushed herself to the point of becoming one of Africa’s richest women. What many do not know about Alakija is that she is a big player ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the pension funds cannot be used as like money. He said that time has come for Nigeria to look into how it can harness the money in its contributory pension funds given the falling oil prices and dwindling revenue. He said it was regrettable that given the growing ...

Back of affordable and decent accommodation has remained one of the major headaches of living in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Residential houses are scarce and the ones available are expensive and almost beyond the reach of many inhabitants. A standard two-bedroom flat goes for between N450,000 to N550,000. A good self-content apartment is priced between N180,000 to N200,000 while a bedroom ...

This article by Mr. Debo Adejana deals with the importance of documentation and sequence of execution in any transaction involving real estate. In real estate, documentation is very key. Real estate is the type of asset that is immovable and highly illiquid; in layman’s language it means it cannot be sold quickly. It can be there for years and yet ...

You want to know the best business decision you can make in 2016?  That will be investing in real estate through Realty Point’s “Bargain of the day” offer. This piece gives useful insight to this off-the-hook initiative. It’s a new year of new beginnings, new opportunities and new innovations. The Pendulum swings forth signaling another chance at taking that step ...