To enhance quality of practice for effective national development and physical planning and ensure sustainable environment, town planners have been urged to discharge their duties to the public in accordance with the ethics of their profession.

A front line real estate developer and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, Mr. Adetokunbo Ajayi, in this interview with Vanguard Homes & Property reviews the essence of taxation and how non-compliance with taxation rules by many operators in the real estate sector of the economy, coupled with government’s lethargy towards enforcement, have created loopholes for unfair advantage at the expense of responsible corporate citizens.

Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Jubril, has lauded the efforts and commitment by Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development, SRADev Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation, towards complete phase out of mercury in products to ensure a safe environment across the country.

Disturbed by incessant building collapse across the country which observers attribute to poor application of cement, stakeholders in the nation’s building/construction industry gathered at a meeting of the Technical Committee on Cement of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to review standard for cement (NIS 444 – 1: 2014), with a view to upgrading standard of all cement grades in Nigeria.

Against the backdrop of the need to meet the huge housing deficit confronting the nation which is estimated to be about 17 million units, the Chief Executive Officer of Mannor Gates Limited, a Lagos-based budding real estate development company, Mrs. Ajoke Ogunlaja,  has revealed that bridging the huge gap should be a collective effort by both government and private developers, pointing out that government alone cannot do it.

Built environment professionals who gathered at the just-concluded 57th Annual General Assembly & Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, NIA, tagged BGM 2017, have called for concerted efforts from relevant stakeholders in addressing affordable housing provision in the country, against the backdrop of the huge housing deficit of the nation.

Communities in Epe Local government area of Lagos State, comprising about 120 families, under the aegis of Eyin-Osa United Kinkdom Development Association EUKDA, have sought the intervention of Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode over the proposed enumeration of their landed property by the state government.

To promote global real estate as well as diversify the nation’s economy particularly as the country exits economic recession, International Real Estate Partners, IREP, a reputable global real estate service firm, has launched into Nigeria’s property market to offer end-to-end real estate solutions to corporate tenants across the country.

Experts in the housing sector of the nation’s economy at the weekend called on the Federal Government to introduce subsidy in the sector to enable the country achieve the dream of providing affordable housing for the citizenry.

The family of Chief Emmanuel Oyedele Ashamu has berated the encroachment on its N700 billion landed property located in various parts of the country, just as it has appointed Messrs DHTL, Capital Management Limited as manager and auditor of the property.

With the launch of Instant Apartment, a web-based platform that provides short stay, medium and long stay property rental, tourists and travellers who don’t want to stay in hotels wherever they travel to around the world, are in for a swell time, as the platform offers customers a wide range of outstanding luxury apartment services to make their stay memorable.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, and stakeholders in the galvanized steel roofing sheets sector have partnered to introduce an improved stone-coated roofing steel sheets into Nigerian building materials market.

Following rising rate of building collapse in the country coupled with the need to urgently address this worrisome development, the Federal Government has been urged to put in place, laws that would checkmate the activities of owners of collapsed buildings.

Developers and promoters of the sprawling 12-floor Cornerstone Tower, a world class office development situated along Yesufu Abiodun Way, next to Four Points by Sheraton, Victoria Island, Lagos, which external block work has been completed, have set March 2018 as its delivery date.

Luxury Villas Group, one of the leading real estate services and brokerage companies in Nigeria that has been around since 2004 with chains of subsidiaries, in conjunction with Agatha’s Interior Design Limited and African Artists’ Foundation, has concluded plans to host a specially tailored one-day event tagged Fusion of Real Estate, Interior Design and Art, FREIA, in Lagos on December 8, 2017.