Real Estate

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a Nigerian lady, considering a real estate agent for a relationship often times has nothing to do with his profession because they hardly view it as one of the most prestigious professions in this part of the world. Therefore, where prestige is absent, wealth becomes paramount. This piece offers Nigerian ladies 10 possible reasons their search for a potential ...

President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed series of agreement with United Arab Emirate (UAE) which is expected to aid recovery of Nigeria’s stolen money and assets. This agreement may have started yielding results as a list of Nigerian politicians who own houses in UAE has been released according to reports. According to Sahara reporters, some notable Nigerians had several businesses and ...

Alhaji Aliyu Oroji Wamakko is the deputy national president, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) and chairman/CEO, Jedo Investment Company Limited. He has pointed out that there is need for the government to team up with REDAN in order to solve the mass housing needs in Nigeria. Read excerpts from his interview below: As an expert in real estate ...

Reeling from the stain of negative report in which African mortgage markets had been painted by global institutions, as a major impediment in the march to address visible and rapidly growing demand for housing; continent’s mortgage operators and experts recently met in Durban, South Africa to enhance the flow of finance for the troubled sector by calling on the countries to ...

Despite the downturn in the economy, experts in the real estate sector are of the opinion that though the sector will respond to both negative and positive economic sentiments this year, there will still be a lot of activities. A report by North Court Real Estate, entitled: ‘Nigeria real estate market outlook 2016’, stated that the office development pipeline had ...