Real Estate

A real estate surveyor and valuer, Mr Livingstone Iyanda, has urged the Federal Government to partner the Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers to enforce property tax in Nigeria. Iyanda told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that a partnership of that kind could make real estate taxation a major source of revenue for the government. ...

The UK will run out of homes for its ageing population if the construction industry cannot provide another 90,000 retirement homes in the next five years, a new report has warned. According to property firm Savills, the country will need a bare minimum of 11,000 such homes a year just to sustain a projected 2pc annual increase in the number ...

The Osun State Government has unveiled the 51st Ooni of Ife. He is Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, a 40-year old real estate magnate and prince from the Giesi Ruling House in the town. The Secretary to the Osun State Government said the selection of the new Ooni followed the completion of all processes for the filling of the exalted stool. Mr. ...

An official has said that the immediate past Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, spent N4.1 billion of pensioners’ funds building houses the retired workers could not afford. The Kano State Commissioner of Information, Mohammed Garba, stated this on an Hausa discussion programme on Freedom Radio on Saturday evening. Mr. Garba said the ex-governor, now Senator, borrowed the N4.161 billion from ...

A real estate expert, Mr. Dipo Fakorede, has attributed the current lull in the sector to cash crunch and change of government at the federal level. He stated that Banks are not lending the the real estate developer or granting mortgage due to the new government policies. He said the incomes of estate firms and investors have been dwindling because ...

Real estate mogul, Peter Kalikow has given $10 million to Hofstra to fund a school of public policy. Newsday reports that Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs will incorporate 19 academic disciplines. Graduates will earn a degree in public policy and service. The 72-year-old Kalikow graduated from Hofstra in 1965. He is a former chairman ...

Andrew Cole, one of the Premier League’s all-time top goal scorers, on bad financial advice, player wages and the merits of buy-to-let. Stating that Investing in property is his best business decision. Read excerpts below: Andew Cole is an ambassador for Manchester United FC. During a playing career of 19 years, he won 15 England caps, is the second-highest goal ...

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What choices do you make when you want to paint the house, change the bulbs, check inside the ceiling, pick or put something far off on a shelve in your house or office? Do you use a stool, table or dangerous makeshift ladders? I’m certain I won’t be so far from the truth to say many people would agree that ...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s Development Finance Institution, yesterday signed an agreement recognizing a $15 million commitment by OPIC to finance Txtlight Power Solutions, Ltd. doing business as Nova-Lumos (Lumos), an off-grid electricity provider, to scale up a business that provides solar electricity to homes and small business throughout Nigeria. The signing was part of Secretary John Kerry’s Climate ...