Real Estate

LafargeHolcim says it has developed a technical training programme for members of the Nigerian Institute of Building and construction artisans to enable them acquire relevant skills to check the menace of building collapse in the country. The representative of the company, Tope Arowolo, who spoke at the 45th Builders’ Conference and Annual General Meeting of the NIOB held at the ...

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday that the pace of new home construction slowed in July for the first time in three months, mostly as a result of fewer multi-unit projects started in urban areas – particularly Calgary. CMHC says the seasonally adjusted annual rate last month was 193,032 units nationally, down from 202,338 units in June. Regionally, ...

The Rate of unemployment in the country is on a recurring decimal. The situation is so bad that some persons now assume joblessness is a career in Nigeria. The Nation’s institutions continue to churn out graduates yearly while those that graduated over the years remain jobless. The new ones come to join the old ones to form an association of ...

If you’ve never seen a “mammy water”  or what the ‘more learned’ ones would call mermaid, then you need to visit Port-Harcourt; there are lots of them there. Port Harcourt is home to various species of fishes. It is probably the best place in Nigeria to go ‘a fishing’ or to embark on a fishing trip but of course that ...

Luxury real estate agent selling billions in real estate shares his secret. Chris Cortazzo is Coldwell Bank’s top agent in the world with 1.5 billion dollars in sales and he’s only been selling homes in Malibu, his home town and affluent areas in southern California since 1994. He shares how he got into real estate, his first sale and his ...

According to the latest index, Prime property prices in central London increased slightly, up by 0.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2015, the first rise since September 2014. Pimlico has seen the strongest growth in the last year with values up five per cent or £66,000 compared with the second quarter of 2014, the data from estate agent ...

Stakeholders in the built environment, who spoke at the recently concluded three-day Abuja Housing Fair, which was organised by FESADEB Communications Limited, said that there is a need for a regulatory framework that will prescribe the prices at which houses should be sold in the country. They noted that the move would eliminate excessive profiteering by landlords and property developers. ...

IMO STATE: Following the recent prediction by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) on possible flooding later this year, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Imo State operations office, has warned Imo residents living in flood prone areas to be conscious of their environment and report any overflow of their river to appropriate authorities. The Imo State Coordinator NEMA, Dr Innocent ...

The US Department of Agriculture has reported that Nebraska’s farm real estate value and cash rent for cropland for 2015 dropped with two percent. According to Allan Vyhnalek, educator at the Platte County Extension Office, the decrease in real estate value is expected due to changing prices of corn and soybeans. In a report published by the University of Nebraska- ...

SYDNEY’S property buyer numbers plunged over the weekend, causing the auction clearance rate to fall to 77.8 per cent, just above the national average of 77 per cent. The poor return from one of the busiest auction weekends in winter history saw the Harbour City slump to fifth place among the nation’s capitals, despite holding down top position for nearly ...