Real Estate

Frontline property developer and lifestyle living promoter, Messrs Haven Homes has announced the launch of its 2016 design, much to the expectations of its teeming subscribers.

Against the backdrop of government’s inability and seeming failure in the housing sector, a real estates developer has set an ambitious target of being one of the engines to drive the country...

Smarting from a successful deal with the Pan African housing finance institution - Shelter Afrique, foremost real estate development company.

TOWARDS ensuring that national programmes mitigate the impacts of climate change and its variability, the Federal government plans to review all existing environmental legislations in the country.   The proposed review would provide the needed national roadmap for sustainable development at all levels and in all key stakeholder constituencies, including engaging universities and research institute…

WORRIED by the growing environmental degradation, climate change issues in Nigeria and the need to mitigate the effects, experts from various institutions in the country and abroad have concluded plans to fashion out the way forward. The experts will be meeting at a three-day forum at the Hall of Mercy, Federal University of Technology, (FUTO),…

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited all world leaders to a signing ceremony on April 22 for the historic climate agreement that was reached in Paris in December last year. The signing event will take place at UN Headquarters in New York on the first day the agreement will be open for signature, which…

AT the last count, almost 85 exhibitors from 14 countries have indicated interested in participate in the launch of Nigeria’s international Building and Construction Exhibition - AfricaBuild set to hold in Lagos this month. The event, which is set to hold from February 16 and 18t, at the Landmark Centre, Lagos, is intended to stimulate…

A Non - Governmental Organisation, mortgage firm and the apex institution have entered into a tripartite agreement to help deliver affordable housing units for low-income earners in the country. Messrs Trustbond Mortgage Bank and Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, in conjunction with The Millard Fuller Foundation are currently promoting the new initiative. Tagged Affordable Housing…

DETERMINED to ensure that police welfare is given adequate attention, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has provided a N130 million residential quarters for the personnel in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Speaking during the commissioning, the Acting Managing Director of the Commission, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, said the project is vital in the face of recent…

TO tackle the dearth of local artisans in the building and construction industry, a construction management consultancy firm and builders have kick-started a scheme known as Construction skills Training and Empowerment Programme  (C-STEmp), which will train, access and certify 200,000 artisans in 2016. The C-STEmp scheme is an initiative of J.Hausen Limited, with Nigerian Institute…

DRASTIC action, which must come within land policy, is needed if the Lagos government is to attract serious real estate investors, members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate surveyors (NIESV), Lagos chapter stressed last week. They advocated for the creation of the valuer-general office, like the office of surveyor-general, attorney general, tutor-general as a means…

A NEW report published has revealed that the total value of all developed real estate on the globe reached US$217 trillion in 2015 The value of global property in 2015 amounted to 2.7 times the world’s GDP, making up roughly 60per cent of mainstream global assets and representing an important store of national, corporate and…