Housing Deficit in Nigeria – The housing sector of Nigeria has been experiencing  housing deficit since the civil war in the 60’s, and the lack of enthusiasm by subsequent governments to take responsibility for this anomaly has caused an increase in this situation nationwide; both in the rural and urban settlements which are either…

    Roles of a property manager in the real estate industry – Ikenna Lansar Aghaji is the principal partner of Lansar Aghaji & Co a firm of Estate Surveyors, Valuers and Auctioneers. A property manager can be defined as a third-party individual or company who is employed by a property owner to handle the…

  Ikenna Lansar Aghaji is the principal partner of Lansar Aghaji & Co a firm of Estate Surveyors, Valuers and Auctioneers. Like the traditional market where a commodity’s final selling price is based on the decisions of two parties (the seller’s marketing skills and the buyer’s bargaining prowess), transactions via an auction also confers the…

Compulsory Acquisition – Long before the establishment of a more sophisticated form of government around the world, land ownership has always been attributed to individuals/families (some of which are the first settlers in that location). By default, these families usually have the rights to sell from their lands, use it to generate economic value or…