Real Estate
How to create a durable home exterior finish
When building a new house, creating and structuring a home of lasting value is uppermost on your mind. Resilience for money spent and investment is undoubtedly what you’d rather have. So, when you get to the stage of your home build where construction is almost completed, it is important to have a beautiful appearance on…
Read MoreReasons you should never buy a piece of real estate on your own
You’re thinking of roughing this whole real estate investment thing on your own. Thanks to the never-ending barrage of real estate information and offers out there, you’ve read up, played catch up, and you’re feeling pretty confident to go it alone. This is all you need and your own sound judgement, right? Uh huh… Hopefully…
Read MoreReal Estate, your Home and Wellness
Feeling sick? Your home might be the culprit When you think about wellness within your walls, what comes to mind? No, we’re not talking about the great lengths you go to in maintaining sanitary hygiene all around your home, with the very best of clean, disinfection, vacuuming and fumigation. This is way beyond that, as…
Read MoreHow technology can and is revolutionising the Nigerian real estate space
It is needless to say that technology plays heavy roles on preconstruction, construction and post-construction stages as well as real estate transactions. A steady trickle in of tech trends and influences is now seemingly revolutionizing the industry most recently, thus, bringing in more efficiency, reduction in costs and time-saving in consummating transactions. On the…
Read MoreLiving from pay check to pay check? You deserve better
It’s less than 2 weeks after payday, and you’re already looking to be broke. Wallet empty, account already in the red. As abysmal and dismaying as this is, it’s the sad reality for most income earners, and it seems like a vicious cycle with no end in sight. More than 70 percent of workers live…
Read MoreRed Alert: Assured Return schemes
“Assured Returns” is one of the most popular terms used in commercial and residential real estate projects to attract prospective buyers. What #happens in this scenario is that developers promise a certain ‘Assured Return’ on their real estate projects, offering as high as 12-18% returns till possession. This alluring offer entices the gullible public to…
Read MoreThe right realtor for you when selling your home
It’s time for a new beginning. It’s new, dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for you (I’m literally quoting the lyrics from Micheal Buble’s “Feeling Good” track). You’ve bought a newer property and you just want to start afresh, something just doesn’t sit quite right with you, or say, you’re moving out…
Read MoreAn undisclosed secret that helps new realtors gain clients
New realtors, having trouble finding clients and doing business? It can be quite a challenge to establish themselves as a local expert in real estate—especially when you’re competing against seasoned professionals. One often overlooked way to gain experience and insight into a local real estate market is to help renters seeking new apartments. If you’re…
Read MoreHow to Invest in Real Estate Affordably
Most investment portfolios and retirement plans are invested in stocks and fixed-income investments. But real estate trumps all of these as it is an excellent portfolio diversification because of it being a “hard asset”. More so, the long-term investment performance of real estate is hard to argue with. Adding some real estate to your…
Read MoreA modernist look at Farm House Living
How would you like to live as closely as possible to the farm that produces the very meals you eat? Would this be an alluring case of “being one with nature? Well “Agri-hood” communities are becoming very popular in the United States for example, and here’s why: Eager to attract buyers who want modern…
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