Real Estate News

As the country continues to fight the problem of huge deficit in the number of houses available to the people, former Director General of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P in Niger State, Alhaji Hassan Nuhu, has said that adopting alternative technology in the construction of houses would go a long way to end the problem He suggested that ...

If you wanted to acquire a land today in Nigeria, you’d probably have to go through a convoluted process of searching for reliable agents, hoping they don’t stab you in the back when you’re not looking. That’s the exact problem the new website is attempting to solve. Lands.ng is an online marketplace solely for land listings and its associated services in Nigeria. With increased ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos Branch has urged its members to improve the practice of estate surveying in country. The programme, tagged: “Head of Practice Forum 2016: International Property Measurement Standard and its Impacts to the Nigeria Property Market”, held at Agidingbi, IKeja, emphasized the importance of proper valuation in the real estate sector in ...

Chief Olabode Afolayan is the Chairman of Housing Developers Cooperative Society (HDCS) and past President, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN). In this interview he notes that the Housing sector has been identified as a sector that can create a lot of employment for the people and will help jump start the economy. Read excerpts below: Now that we ...

Towards easing transportation problems in the rural communities, Nasarawa State government has announced plans to construct a N500 million bridges and culverts across the state. Governor Tanko Al-makura disclosed after inspecting the Lafia-Ashinge-Fadama-Bauma road over the weekend. He said construction and reconstruction of roads across the state had been the centre focus of his administration, considering the plight faced by ...

Residents of Lekki Gardens Estate located along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State have called on Governor Akinwunmi Amobode to have a rethink on his vacation order given to the residents of the estate. There appears to be no sign of any resident of the estate moving out as at the weekend. Following the collapse of a five-storey building belonging to Lekki ...

The national chairman of Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE) has called on the general public to tread with caution while acquiring properties by performing in-depth due diligence on the expertise of the developer as panacea for the menace of building collapse, particularly with reference to the Lekki Garden tragedy of the penultimate week. Robbie James Owivry, made the call ...

The federal government has called for a new template, which will ensure proper costing of projects and prudent management of available resources. Speaking at the 2016 National Project Cost Reduction Summit organised in Abuja, by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN), the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said the move has become inevitable ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday tasked the 22 states governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to build 250,000 housing units per annum. This, he said, is to meet up with the election campaign promise of providing one million houses for Nigerians yearly. He spoke at the opening session of the two-day National Economic Council (NEC) Retreat on the economy ...

“The Ministry of Housing needs to work closely with the Ministry of Transportation. That’s how most major cities in the world have grown. Railway is the biggest stumbling block for Real Estate to grow in this country. If government can provide rail, you do not need to tell these Developers to Build” The above statement was made by Babafemi Awofala ...