To limit impact of climate change, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Nigeria Group has urged stakeholders to adopt green building designs that will ensure sustainability...

Amid public skepticism about experts and global institutions driving high standards across markets, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has unfolded an ambitious agenda to keep the profession at the heart of the built and natural environment.

As the downturn from coronavirus pandemic squeezes the economy, higher-end and luxury real estate markets have become the hardest hit, as premium apartments property owners record lowest sales in major cities.

As the Nigerian economy falters due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, businesses are worst off, prompting pay cuts in many companies, search by people living in rented houses for budget-friendly homes across cities and towns to reduce costs.

Victor Adekunle Alonge is the Vice-Chairman, Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON), Principal partner, Nelson Thorpe Alonge.

Home values around the world rose broadly in the second quarter of 2019, though at a slower place than at any point in the past decade, according to an index released Wednesday from Knight Frank.

Experts have canvassed the deployment of blockchain technology to advance transactions, the profession and boost transparency between practitioners and clients.

Notwithstanding no specific law mandating the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to engage the services of registered Nigerian Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) in the process of assets declaration, the professional body reiterated that its involvement would deepen the nation’s democracy, especially curb the wrong valuation of assets.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Nigeria group has called for the development of stronger cities that easily absorb urban shocks and take into cognizance lives of residences irrespective of their physical challenges.

GBENGA ISMAIL is the principal partner of Ismail and Partners and Chairman, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Nigeria chapter. He also doubles as the Vice President, International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) Nigeria chapter. In this interview with BERTRAM NWANNEKANMA, he spoke on the activities of RICS and other sundry issues affecting housing delivery in…

Although housing has continue to pose severe challenges in many parts of the country, the problems are however more peculiar and severe in Nigerian cities.

The controversy dogging the imposition of exorbitant service charges in various estates in the country is set to boil over, with bitter quarrels between the property owners or managers and the occupiers. In rare cases, the trouble has been between residents and associations executives. Service charge is a mandatory payment made by tenants toward the…