Real Estate

As part of the events to mark their 10th anniversary, the Association of Consulting Architects in Nigeria (ACA Nigeria), the professional body which represents consultant architects in private practice will next Wednesday launch a book titled: “The Architecture in Nigeria.” Speaking at a media briefing in Lagos on Tuesday, the President, ACA- Nigeria, Mr. Omotayo Babalakin, explained that the book ...

Real Estate Competition is hinged on market trends. To say that competition defines the value of homes is a bit short-sighted, though it does impact the price you will see for your home. The only thing that can define the value of any piece of real estate is a buyer willing to pay for it, but the market and the ...

The federal government, has pledged to contribute $1million for water provision and sanitation in the continent. Making the pledge at the 10th anniversary of the African Water Facility (AWF) in Abuja, President Mohammadu Buhari said the fund became necessary owing to challenges faced in Africa in the development and management of water resource, saying that the continent’s potential to meet ...

Osun State Government has commenced the reconstruction of major intra-city roads within Osogbo, the state’s capital. Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the Flag-off of the 2.8 Kilometer Olaiya-Jaleyemi-Asubiaro to Ita -Olookan road in Osogbo on Friday, said that the re-construction of the roads was part of the promises made by his administration. He said that the projects would lift the face ...

The 3P’s: Poverty, Poor Housing and Health In recent years, environmental health science has broadened the scope of its inquiries, expanding its investigations beyond the effects of single pollutants on individuals to incorporate the entire panorama of external factors that may affect people’s health. Consideration of the health impacts of the built environment—the human-modified places where we live, work, play, ...

The dangers of living in slums are innumerable. If left unchecked, it poses an extended risk to the rest of the society. Poverty has long been associated with the rural masses in developing countries, which have rightly been the targets of development and food assistance programs. With the growth of cities, poverty is increasingly becoming visible among city dwellers to ...

SINGAPORE: Most home owners here will pay less property tax next year compared to the amount paid this year, said the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) on Monday (Nov 30). Owners of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats will see tax savings of 9 to 24 per cent, while more than 80 per cent of private home owners with ...

Combination of having to pay higher salaries so staff can afford housing and paying increasing amounts in office rent is causing some to consider moving out Rising London property costs in central London could lead to a wave of businesses relocating outside the capital, research has claimed. It used to be that more and more businesses were looking for an ...

New Zealand – Only 500 houses have been built in Auckland’s special housing areas, despite the Auckland Housing Accord staying ahead of its consents target. The Auckland Council said that since the Auckland Housing Accord was launched two years ago, 1226 dwellings in special housing areas (SHAs) have received building consents and 500 are complete. But Auckland Mayor Len Brown ...

The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua, was absent in court on Monday at the start of the trial over the collapse of a refurbished six-storey building inside his church premises in 2014. The building collapse killed116 people, mostly South Africans. In July, Oyetade Komolafe, a coroner, indicted the church and the engineers in charge ...