Agent’s Diary

It’s that time of the year when love is consciously renewed and engraved in our hearts. It’s Valentine’s day again and everyone is either proclaiming their love for another or rediscovering new ways to love. The day when the skies suddenly turn red and the earth becomes an arena of unspeakable romance. The various hangout spots and fun zones becomes ...

This narrative was first shared on February 2, 2015 at the onset of the Economic recession. It is a story about how a real estate top shot encountered his best real estate deal yet whilst just a mere real estate agent. Without mincing words, I can tell you that it is not everybody that is feeling the cash crunch. Yes, ...

Lagos-based online marketplace for properties, Hutbay, has unveiled customizable web pages for estate agents and developers, to boost their online presence. Hutbay made this known to TechCabal via an email conversation with company CEO, Owolabi Olatunji. According to an official release from Hutbay, the customizable web pages, which has been in beta for some weeks now, will allow real estate ...

On today’s episode of Agent Diary, an agent by the name Mr. Aliyu Kehinde shares with Nigeria Real Estate hub’s correspondent what being an agent is and has been to him. He shares the challenges he and his professional colleagues face and gives advice on how to be careful while surfing for properties online   NREH – Good afternoon, kindly ...

Our second story in a long series of Agent’s diary dwells on the private life of a Real estate agent who happens to come from a very wealthy home. This is a sojourn into the personal life of arguably the youngest and one of the most talked about agent in Lekki; Kunle Irepodun (real names withheld). We decided to share ...

We brought you the ‘FIRST EVER REAL ESTATE FICTION SERIES’ that has been opening our eyes week in, week out to the challenges tenants go through with their landlords and even their fellow tenants. The Brouhaha of Oga Martins is believed to have also created a broader perspective as to the hurdles real estate agents and practitioners have to cross ...

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 ...

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 ...

A developer and four estate agents have been arraigned before a magistrate’s court sitting in Lagos for allegedly collecting a sum of N19.4m from 56 persons under the guise of letting out a self-contained apartment on Yusuf Street in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state. We gathered that the accused persons – Chief Adeoye Ogundipe (70), Chief Wasiu Jinadu ...

MONDAY- 05/08/13 Entered the office around 7:58am, wrote my weekly report and proceeded for management meeting, was given a target to sell 2 properties in a month, we discussed our major challenges. As an agent my major challenge is how to distinguish between the serious Clients/Agents and the Time/Resources Wasters.  After the meeting,  I drove off for inspection at Ikeja ...