Real Estate

The Queen’s commercial property empire has nearly doubled in value over the last decade, and last year alone delivered £285m in profits into the Treasury’s coffers. The Crown Estate Company, run by regeneration specialist Alison Nimmo, owns Regent Street and much of St James’s in London, along with Windsor Great Park, large swaths of farmland and the seabed around the ...

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has declared that no toll will be collected at the second point on the Lekki- Epe Expressway. Ambode also assured that his government would be one of continuity with improvement. The governor made the comments on Sunday, June 21, 2015, during an interactive session with journalists at the Banquet Hall of the Lagos House, Ikeja, ...

As part of its moves to stem the menace of erosion in Edo State, government has embarked on the reclamation of the Auchi , Queen Ede and Ekenwa sites, which will gulp N9billion. The contract are as follows; Auchi, N5.7billion, Queen Ede N2.7billion and Ekenwa is about N360million. Besides, not less than 108 gully erosion sites pervades the length and ...

Lafarge Africa has signed a strategic partnership with the Federal Government Presidential Initiative to rebuild the troubled North-East region of the country which has witnessed enormous destruction from the activities of Boko Haram. The Chief Executive Officer, Lafarge Nigeria and Benin Republic, Mr. Guillaume Roux, disclosed  after the meeting with the Chairman of the PINE, Prof. Soji Adelaja, that the ...

Overseas buyers snapped up more than $100 billion in U.S. real estate over the past year, as the foreign wealthy sought safe shelter for their fortunes. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of U.S. residential real estate to overseas buyers between April 2014 and March 2015 reached a record $104 billion, or about 8 percent of total existing ...

The new Governor of Lagos state, I must say has shown more activeness than most of us thought from our mere perception of him in his few days of being in office. It is safe to say he stepped in nicely into the shoes of his predecessor and would most likely make Lagosians proud. However, some officials in sectors of ...

Sydney’s real estate boom may be ending soon, says one of Australia’s largest property advisory groups. Valuers Herron Todd White have warned that Sydney’s property boom is into its dying stages, with a national property clock showing prices have peaked and may soon fall. The property clock is a simple measure to show where a market is in its price ...

When searching for a place to call home, many of us get carried away with the prospects the agents offer as regards the place you hope to rent/buy so much that we don’t put other factors that could make our stay unpleasant in retrospect. You can’t afford to let anyone make you feel you can’t be choosy because that person ...

Africa’s real estate has skyrocketed over the years and its presently on a high that needs to be fully exploited to produce the much needed bang it duly deserves. Though Africa’s real estate assets could contribute only few drops of water in the ocean of the world’s real estate enclave, its still an emerging market that has been noticeably rising ...

Comfort and style do not come cheap and buyers are willing to pay a lot of money for the comfort and status. Here is a rating and analysis of the most expensive apartments in the world.   1.   Sky Penthouse, Monaco, $400 million This is a five-story penthouse with sea views and a rooftop pool. The total area is of ...