Global Real Estate

When a house is in foreclosure then all doesn’t seem well. Foreclosure is something every real estate investor naturally tries to avoid especially when the investor’s real estate acquisition thrives on mortgage. In this article we explain what foreclosure means and how it is effected.  Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of ...

According to LAFARGE, in 2014, Nigeria was estimated to have lost N300 billion to bitumen importation. Now, with biting foreign exchange scarcity, dwindling revenue, and prevailing economic recession, experts have called for the use of concrete to build roads rather than bitumen. In this article we take a look at the advantages of Concrete road over Asphalt road In recent ...

A living room should be a place to entertain guests, as well as a space where you can relax and put your feet up. In this article culled from homelife, we take a look at the top 10 Living room styling mistakes people make. Albeit for many, its really no fault of theirs not even with the extent of poverty ...

Last week we posted an article on the most unlivable cities on earth and our darling Lagos state surprisingly came out tops on the list. Lagos was ranked the worst global city to live in after Tripoli and Damascus. In this article we take a look at the top 10 most Livable cities in the world. Whether you are looking ...

I’m sure it came as a shock to many of us when our darling city of Lagos – Africa’s fastest growing city was ranked among the top 3 worst cities in the world to live. Now let’s find out the other 9 cities that made the list of top 10 worst cities in the world to live. A number of ...

Urban populations have skyrocketed globally and today represent more than half of the world’s population. In this article, we look at the challenges of living in a slum area. In some parts of the developing world, the growth of the urban population has more-than-proportionately involved rural migration to informal settlements in and around cities, known more commonly as “slums”—densely populated ...

Some persons might not agree with me if I were to say the kitchen is the most important room amongst rooms that exist in a home, albeit I may not be so far away from the truth. I mean, the kitchen is where ingredients that turn boys to men and girls to ladies are forged. In this article we take ...

In this part of the world little emphasis is placed on soil test before a building is erected, hence, there is a need to bring this aspect of structural engineering under radar and this article attempts to do justice to that. Building projects require careful and thorough planning because they can have a major impact on their surroundings. Whether you’re ...

Though real estate investment can be highly profitable, it can as well be tricky and quite complex. In this article, we would take a look at common mistakes of a real estate investor in an attempt to break the banks. Even in our present recession people are still investing in real estate, foreclosure crisis persists and mistakes are still being ...

The issue of climate change and its consequences is all over the media and has moved up the political agenda. Occurrence and severity of natural disasters increases daily. Flooding is one of the most common natural disasters in the world.  The risk of flooding has always been present for buildings close to rivers or coasts but it has been growing ...