Property

PAUCITY of funds may stall the completion of the 150 units low-cost housing project in Delta State.

AN ambitious real estate project, classified under the new neighborhoods, christened as Orange Island, to cover 150 hectares of land, located within Lekki corridor in Lagos State, is already underway.

THE 25th session of the Governing Council (GC) of UN-Habitat has approved the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning co-sponsored by France, Japan, South Africa and Uganda. Coming as Resolution 25/6 of UN-Habitat Governing Council, it calls upon ‘international financial institutions, development agencies, and UN-Habitat to assist interested member States in using and adapting…

FUELLED by the need to prevent average global temperatures rising above two degrees Celsius and to reap the many opportunities that arise from a necessary global transformation to clean and sustainable development, the Federal Government last week began a process to formulate new climate action plan for the country. The proposed document is part of…

APPARENTLY to offer more opportunities to prospective homeowners, the Lagos authorities have announced plans to jump-started its abandoned mixed development schemes in the metropolis. The schemes to be resuscitated are Kirikiri mixed development scheme, Apapa; Lagos North-west residential Scheme, Egan/Igando/Akesan; Akowonjo Mixed Development; Ketu-Alapere residential scheme and Ologe-Agbara industrial estate. Others are Oto-Awori, Jobiti Government…

IN continuation of its housing delivery plan for 2015, the Lagos State government has concluded partnership with seven private developers to deliver 687 housing units’ projects. The firms: Messrs Nicobana Nig. Ltd., who is to deliver five units of 4-bedroom apartment at 21, Turnbull Road, Ikoyi; Messrs CSB/Prosper Garden Ltd., who will deliver 80 units…

The NIS President, Mr. Bern Omo Akhigbe revealed that it is a misnomer for the Federal government to set up a Land Use Act Allocation Committee without a land surveyor who can provide the extent/size, behaviour/relief, location, identity, model, and current use of the land in question. In this interview with The Guardian’s Tunde Alao,…

Encouraged by this posture and to ensure the process follows the right path, NIESVs, as at last week sought to seek audience with Buhari over the matter. But The Guardian, as at the time of filling this report could not confirm whether the institution actually met with the president-elect or not.

The proposed agenda, which is consistent with research findings and policy advocacy that the agency have pursued over several years, harped on the need to transform cities as engines of wealth creation and ensure access to decent income, decent housing, safe drinking water, and affordable transportation.

AN office complex being developed by a Lagos-based firm architectural firm, Messrs Design Genre Consultants is among the 57 entries shortlisted for the 2014 World Architecture News commercial Award (WAN) in the commercial category.

FOLLOWING the infiltration of estate agency practice by quacks that creates negative perception about genuine professionals in the country, members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) have commenced programmes to rescue the practitioners from public opprobrium and reposition them in the scheme of things.

INSTEAD of dissipating energy on the agency aspect of the profession, realtors under an aegis, the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos State Chapter, has been urged to drive creation of more new neighbourhoods in the state.