What we publish on Nigeria–UK real estate.
Market commentary, location and development notes, and research on the Nigeria–UK corridor. Written for owners, investors and developers, not for search engines.
Two markets, two different arguments about the same interest rate
One mature and rate-driven, one young and cash-driven. Why we report them separately rather than blending them into a single misleading average.
What you are actually buying on a garden square
Key rights, the committee that grants them, and the four squares where the key is worth more than the extra bedroom.
The eleven valuations last quarter where we said wait
Fifty-two valuations, eleven recommending no sale. What those houses had in common, and what it cost us to say so.
Title, not location, is the Abuja price driver
Two plots on the same road, forty per cent apart in price. The difference was a Certificate of Occupancy and nine months at the land registry.
Six towers, six reserve funds, one honest answer
We read the service charge accounts for six buildings on the same frond. Only two had reserves that would survive a chiller replacement.
Maitama, street by street, with the power supply mapped
Which roads sit on which feeder, how often each fails, and what a genuinely independent supply costs to install.
Why we refer away four deals a year
Dual agency is legal in all three of our regions and we still will not do it. The arithmetic of what that refusal costs.
Prime London, Q1: fewer buyers, better ones
Viewings down a fifth, offer-to-completion up eleven days, fall-through rate at a four-year low. What that combination usually precedes.
The four renovations that never return their cost
From two hundred valuations: the loft conversion that loses a bedroom, and three other improvements buyers price at nothing.
The fronds, ranked by what they actually cost to run
Service charge, cooling, and beach maintenance across eleven fronds, with the two we would buy on and the reason.
Thirty-five years, and the listing we handled worst
A house in Guildford, priced on sentiment, reduced twice. What we should have said at the valuation and did not.
The two failures we see most in buying from abroad
Paying before searches complete, and trusting a relative's inspection. Both are avoidable and both recur every quarter.
Four emails a year. One report, no listings, no offers.
Market commentary for the market you follow, on the Nigeria–UK corridor.
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