The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Stanbic IBTC Bank to reverse the illegal sale of Mrs. Abosede Folasayo Fagbola’s property situated at 3 Ayoola Adeyefa Street (Plot 4 Block N) Oroki Estate, Osogbo, Osun state. The Osun-based lawyer dragged the bank before a Federal high court in Lagos after her property was sold without her knowledge. Joined as ...
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FHA plans to invest N9 billion in Abuja mass housing
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) said it would invest N9 billion in the ongoing construction of its Abuja Mass Housing Project of 550 units of houses, located in Zuba, Abuja. Prof. Mohammed Al-Amin, Managing Director of FHA, made this known on Friday while fielding questions from journalists after an inspection of the Zuba pilot scheme construction site, Abuja. The News ...
Read More »FMBN has created over N80b mortgages so far – Ahmed Dangiwa
The Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Ahmed Dangiwa, says the lender has created more than N80bn mortgages since inception. Dangiwa stated this during the tour of Sedona Housing Estate in Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos, which was financed by the FMBN and developed by Sedona Business Consults, an Abuja-based firm. The figure shows a 10.4 per cent increase in ...
Read More »35 beneficiaries of NHF gets keys to their houses
The Managing Director (MD) of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Mortgage bank, Hayadeen Atiku Auwal, over the weekend handed over keys to 35 eligible contributors who have fulfilled all the basic requirements to access the National Housing Fund (NHF) facility in Gombe, the Gombe state capital. While handing over the keys to the cheerful beneficiaries, Atiku said the scheme was ...
Read More »Osinbanjo declares 12th edition of Abuja International Housing show opened
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo would be declaring open the 12th edition of the Abuja International Housing Show, aimed at boosting housing investment in Nigeria. Festus Adebayo, Managing Director, FESADEB Communications Ltd., and the convener stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja. The housing show which is the largest real estate festival in Africa ...
Read More »Union Homes drags AMCON over seized properties
Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is battling Union Home over property allegedly belonging to the former minister of aviation, Senator Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi. AMCON has through a court order seized several properties belonging to companies like Sea Petroleum Oil and Gas Group Limited and placed them under receivership. The properties in question are E29 and 31E Fat Oboh street Millennium ...
Read More »NMRC commits to greening Nigeria’s building construction industry
Nigerian building developers have come together to discuss the pathway for a greener Nigeria through the construction industry. Financial institution and mortgage re-finance provider NMRC has pledged to be a leader in pioneering the implementation of EDGE certification in the construction industry. NMRC and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, along with the consortium ...
Read More »REPORT: Analysis Of Real Estate Market contribution to Nigeria’s GDP in Q1, 2018
This article is a brief but detailed analysis of real estate market in Nigeria and how it contributed to GDP based on the report of Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report. It is unarguable that the Real Estate market offers a great potential source of growth for Nigeria’s GDP. The real estate industry has been repeatedly touted as an undoubted goldmine ...
Read More »Expert urges FG to make mortgage accessible
The Managing Director of Infinity Trust Mortgage Bank (ITMB) Olabanjo Obaleye has said it was difficult for mortgage industry to make a meaningful impact without government `s firm commitment to relax the policies surrounding property rights, perfection, and transfer in terms of time and cost. He stated this during the unveiling of new logo and brand direction of the bank ...
Read More »Brief History of Mortgage In Nigeria and How it Works
In simple terms, a mortgage is a legal agreement that allows you to borrow money from a bank or building society, at a specified interest rate, in order to buy/build a house. The concept of mortgage in Nigeria is pretty straightforward. It is a loan in which a property (whether land or building) is used as collateral. The borrower enters ...
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