Real Estate

The Vice President, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, Prof. Charles Uko, has called on the Federal Government to utilise rigid pavement in the construction of roads in the South-South region of the country due to its peculiar terrain. The slip form of concrete pavement design is being introduced into the construction of the 20-kilometre product evacuation road ...

North Dakota, United States – Exxon Mobil donates $5m to North Dakota housing fund A subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp donated $5 million on Monday to a North Dakota government housing fund that subsidizes construction of low-cost apartments for teachers and emergency personnel in the state’s oil patch. XTO Energy will receive a 100 percent tax write-off for its donation ...

The Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a sum of $243m for road project within the Southern African, Zambia. The AIIB, with authorized capital of 100 billion U.S. dollars, is designed to finance infrastructure construction, as many countries do not have the capacity to fund the infrastructure upgrades they need. Impressed with the proposal to establish a China-Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ...

We are about to share with you amazing and weird pictures and details of buildings/places you never thought existed. The only way you would have come across buildings in this article is probably watching a Hollywood movie. These pictures and info will hold you spellbound! If you are opportuned to take a tour round one of the buildings displayed below, ...

There are lots of beautiful cities around the world that people crave to visit and spend quality time. However those cities are not perfect wonders, they do have some factors that smear their beauty and Lagos is no exception. In as much as some parts of the city defile all odds in terms of finesse, there are some places that ...

Global Firm reaffirms steady growth in Dubai’s real estate market Dubai continued to see steady supply growth during the first six months of the year, as performance within the residential and hospitality markets began to soften after a three year period of sustained growth, according to the Q2 2015 Dubai MarketView by global property consulting firm CBRE. According to the ...

MD/CEO, FT+D Ltd, Architect Temidayo Fabiyi, in an interview with Nigeria real estate hub correspondent has said that avoiding building collapse in Nigeria is a task for every stakeholder in the building industry. A graduate of the University of Lagos department of Architecture with a post graduate degree in Environmental Sciences (Architecture) and a member of the Nigeria Institute of ...

Sadiq Khan pledges to ban ‘poor doors’ in London housing development. A Labour London mayoral candidate has pledged to ban so-called poor doors, where private and social housing tenants have separate entrances. Sadiq Khan said he had discussed with charities the need for a new approach to dealing with the capital’s chronic housing crisis. The use of separate doors to ...

An engineer and town planner, who contributed to the development of some of the highways in the country, Prof. John Falade, has said many developing areas manifest features of slum settlements because the government has failed to play its role of planning the urban areas. Falade spoke in Ibadan during the 10th year remembrance of the late Prof. Poju Onibokun, ...

Buying a house is generally an exciting adventure and could be painstaking for some when it looks like you are left with no funds after the buy. The thrill of finding a home that you and your family can enjoy, where you will raise your children, make friends – all the good things that home ownership entails. But there are ...