Real Estate

ARM Nigeria, an asset management firm with interest in real estate has acquired Mixta Africa, a property development company. Speaking to CNBC Africa on the new acquisition, the Chairman/ CEO of Mixta Africa Deji Alli, says Nigerians can now look forward to affordable housing across the country with the entry of Mixta Nigeria into the housing market. Watch video below:

Egyptian Housing Minister, Mustafa Madbouly, said plans are underway to build 1 million homes for the poor people at a cost of almost 20 billion dollars over the next five years. He said on Wednesday in Cairo that the plan was aimed at easing a crunch that has seen slums and unlicensed buildings spread since the 2011 revolt. Madbouly said ...

Owing to the fact that there are many real estate agents around, it is consequential that you go the extra mile to stand out from the crowd of real estate agents in the country. This article gives ten worthy tips on how to be a professional real estate agent and achieve success at it. The world of residential real estate ...

This article shares useful tips on what to do to succeed as a real estate investor who is looking to forge a path for himself in real estate business. The essence of success is achieving a long period of prosperity through your actions. For a newbie real estate investor in the real estate investment property market, that kind of success ...

Applicants who have applied for Certificates of Occupancy, and whose applications were not concluded due to absence of essential documents, will heave a sigh of relief soon, as the Lands Bureau has created a dedicated Help- Desk for uncompleted Applications. In a statement signed by the Public relations Office of the Bureau, this became necessary considering the avalanche of uncompleted and ...

Traffic congestion is a situation in which demand for road space exceeds supply. Traffic congestion is the impedance vehicles impose on each other, due to the speed-flow relationship, in conditions where the use of a transport system approaches capacity. Traffic congestion is essentially a relative phenomenon that is linked to the difference between the roadway system performance that users expect ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government will re-introduce highway tolling to raise additional funds to finance road infrastructure and ensure efficient road maintenance. Mr. Fashola said this on Tuesday in Abuja during his first news conference tagged “Setting the Agenda for Delivering Change”. He said that adequate funding of the nation’s road infrastructure ...

The Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers and the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) have called for synergy among the seven professional groups in the built environment to tackle various challenges confronting the industry. According to them, it would take cooperation for the construction industry to attain success in addressing some of the issues in the industry, particularly building collapse. The ...

Here is a compilation of what you should know about the Nigerian Built Environment, the structure, challenges and what should be done to make it better. The built environment is the human-made surroundings where people gather to live, work and play. It encompasses both the physical structures where people do these activities and the supporting infrastructure, such as transport, water ...

Former President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV)  Bode Adediji has said replicating FESTAC town is no longer feasible. He said what the government needed to do is to have the right policy and enabling environment for the private sector to thrive in the real estate sector by liberalising land and property ownership through the reduction of bureaucracy ...