Property Guides
Plain-English guides to buying land in Nigeria, checking title documents, spotting scams and investing with confidence.
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How to Buy Farmland in Nigeria: What to Check Before You Pay
Farmland has become one of the most heavily marketed property products in Nigeria, and for understandable reasons. It is cheap per hectare compared with residential land. It sits…
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Building Plan Approval in Nigeria: How to Get One Without Stress
You have bought the land. The title is clean, the survey is charted, the deed is registered and the plot is fenced. Now you want to build. At…
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Land Buying Guide for Ogun State: Mowe, Simawa and Ibafo
There is a simple reason the Ogun State corridor along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway became one of the busiest land markets in Nigeria. A plot of land in a…
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Real Estate vs Fixed Deposit, Stocks and Dollars: An Honest Comparison
“Just buy land.” It is the standard financial advice given at Nigerian weddings, in family WhatsApp groups and by every uncle who has ever done well from a…
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Buying Family Land in Nigeria: Deed of Partition and Community Consent
If you are buying land anywhere outside the planned parts of Nigeria’s big cities, there is a strong chance you are buying family land. Not government land, not…
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Land Buying Guide for Aba and Abia State
Aba is not a pretty city, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling you something. What Aba is instead is a working city, and that turns out…
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Off-Plan Property in Nigeria: The Risks and the Rewards
Buying off-plan means paying for a property that does not exist yet. The developer shows you drawings, a model, perhaps a show unit and a fenced site with…
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Receipt, Contract of Sale and Power of Attorney: Which Paper Does What?
One of the quietest reasons Nigerians lose money on land is that they collect the wrong paper and believe it is the right one. Somebody pays five million…
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Land Buying Guide for Awka and Anambra State
Anambra is one of the most commercially energetic states in Nigeria, and its property market reflects that. Onitsha trades, Nnewi manufactures, and Awka governs and studies. Money made…
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Awka and Asaba: Two Capital Cities, Two Different Property Stories
Awka and Asaba are close enough that people treat them as one region and different enough that treating them as one region is a mistake. They are both…
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Buying a Home in an Estate: Service Charge, Rules and Hidden Costs
Gated estates have become the default aspiration for Nigerian home buyers, and the reasons are easy to understand. A gate and a guard. Internal roads that are graded…
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Short-Let Apartments in Nigeria: Is It Really Worth It?
Short-let apartments arrived in Nigeria’s big cities and changed how a lot of people think about rental property. The pitch is straightforward and genuinely appealing. Instead of collecting…