Ex BBnaija Housemate, Tobi Bakre has just signed an agreement deal with Novarick Homes and Properties limited as Brand Ambassador.

In its quest to address the call for affordable and quality housing for the middle-income Nigerians, Alpha Mead Development Company AMDC, Nigeria’s first real estate development company certified to international standards (ISO 9001:2015) has launched a unique and novel housing scheme called Green Park Homes.

Sujimoto Construction has won the 2019 Bold Initiative in Property Development award. The award which was given by the Nigerian Institute Nigeria Institutes of Architecture comes barely 30 days after it also won the Luxury Developer of the Year 2019 at the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards, a globally acknowledged award.

A Nigerian real estate firm, Wisdom Kwati City, said it has set aside N6 billion for the commencement of its pilot housing projects in Abuja and Adamawa state.

The Nigerian Society of Engineers NSE, has called for stiffer penalties on owners of collapsed buildings and the project handlers in the country, especially where loss of lives is involved.

The Trustees of the Estate of late Madam Iyalode Tinubu have asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to set aside the ruling of a Lagos High Court on the disputed Ijora land.

In a bid to invoke transparency, the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers NIESV, has asked the Code of Conduct Bureau CCB, to include the services of its members and services of  Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria ESVARBON, in the process of assets declaration by public officials in order to arrive at true reflective values of such assets.

Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of a Federal Capital Territory, Abuja High Court, Nyanya Judicial Division, last Thursday refuted an interlocutory order purportedly claimed by some persons he had granted against Architects’ Registration Council of Nigeria ARCON, restraining it from registering new architects pending the determination of a matter before it.

The newly inaugurated president of the Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, Kunle Awobodu, has decried the menace of building collapse in the country which solution has defied all logics.

The  President, Nigerian Society of Engineers NSE, Kunle Mokuolu, has charged environmental engineers to tackle the  challenges of open defecation and indiscriminate parking of trucks causing Apapa gridlock and road degeneration.

Lagos State Government has warned residents of state owned housing estates to desist from modifying or altering the approved designs of structures in the residential estates.

The importance of housing as a basic need to man, cannot be over emphasised. But to make housing available to people requires an effective mortgage system for funding housing in any country , just as the country’s economy must be sound to support the country’s housing needs.

Apart from the nightmare residents of Apapa, workers and visitors to Apapa go through on daily basis as a result of the unending gridlock in the axis caused by the menace of articulated trucks and tankers, which has remained a major concern, one other serious issue of concern is the degradation of Apapa environment by the gridlock.

The Principal Partner, Lansar Aghaji & Co, a firm of estate surveyors and valuers, and expert in facilities management, Mr. Lansar Aghaji,  has noted that absence of policy guidelines for maintenance and management of  government’s infrastructure is responsible for dilapidating state of public buildings across the country.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently toured the areas within the Festac Phase 11 to ascertain the extent of illegal sales by land grabbers.