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…

ASSET DECLARATION – In a bid to invoke transparency, earn the citizen’s trust and fight corruption (in its many forms), virtually all the countries of the world (world bank puts the statistics at over 150 countries) provide a structured medium for ensuring that elected, appointed, recruited or contracted public officials make their assets known to…

Today, Real Estate is a cliché in every country. Real Estate property is attributed as a sure-bank investment for persons who can afford this intangible form of assets, and unlike money, it is ranked higher than financial instruments. This Article is not to argue about its societal placement as a form of an asset over…