Real Estate

There are two fundamentally different forms of legal ownership: freehold and leasehold. Although estate agents tend to gloss over it, the difference can be between a home that is worth buying and one that isn’t. Many people who don’t sort this out when they buy a home end up regretting it – getting it wrong can be hugely expensive. For ...

Lagos State Government said it has concluded plans to rebuild Makoko by constructing a housing estate on the waterfront. Makoko is a slum area with an estimated population of about 100,000 people living in squalor and poor sanitary conditions, with structures constructed on stilts above the Lagos lagoon. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Toyin Ayinde, who disclosed this, ...

The Senate Committee Chairman on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Smart Adeyemi has expressed regret and disappointment over the doggedness with which cabals within real estate industry sabotage the signing into law a bill to control rent. He said the bill, pending before President Jonathan for assent, was meant to do the nation good. While speaking Wednesday immediately after plenary session ...

Three members of a family in Amechi community, Awkunanaw Local Government Area of Enugu State have lost their lives over a land dispute. The victims were identified as Nnaemeka Agbo (alias Echidime), Sunday Nnamani, and Nnamani Ikpa. The disputed land lies directly opposite government-owned Millennium Estate, which is still under construction along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. It was gathered that ...

Landlord and tenant relationship is an association between two individuals arising from an agreement by which one individual occupies the other’s real property with permission, subject to a rental fee. The term landlord refers to a person who owns property and allows another person to use it for a fee. The person using the property is calleda tenant. The agreement between ...

The embattled senator-elect of Ogun East Senatorial District, Prince Buruji Kashamu is enmeshed in another mess as he has been accused of forging documents for a landed property worth billions of naira in Ajah area of Lagos state, Southwest, Nigeria. Kashamu, who is also fighting extradition to the United States over drug related issues, has been challenged by the family ...

As much as some resident in Lagos state still have their peace and tranquility, some others have lost millions to fire outbreak in the outgoing month of May. The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, on Tuesday said property worth about N1.4 billion were destroyed by fire within 24 days in May alone. However, he said, property ...

The landlord returned around 12p.m. to find out if they had repented of their ways and willing to hand over the culprit. Since there was no culprit to hand over considering the fact that no one had confessed to starting the fire, he had left, refusing to call off his dogs. While they stood or sat in the sun which ...

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership, locations like building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, ...

Louise Edgerton, her partner, John Camus, and her 10-year-old daughter, Fianna, joke around while making brownies. They move around with ease in the gleaming white kitchen of the new dream home they designed themselves. But for Edgerton, one financial setback could change everything. “I am discouraged, because I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a ...