Browsing: Lagos Real Estate & Neighbourhoods

There is a development going up along the Lekki corridor, somewhere between Chevron and the second toll gate, that I have been watching for about eight mon

The call came on a Tuesday morning, which is the kind of detail that sounds irrelevant until you consider that the man calling had just watched a Caterpill

The agreement was four pages. Folded twice, slightly damp at the edges from the agent’s bag. Emeka spread it on the bonnet of his car because there was now

The notice was taped to the gate with the kind of scotch tape that surrenders in Lagos humidity, and it had already started peeling at one corner by the ti

The man telling the story was doing it loudly, which is how you know it is true. People who are lying about money in Lagos get quieter as they go, not loud

The two men did not shout at each other, which surprised me. I was expecting shouting. They stood at the edge of a plot off the Eleko axis in Ibeju-Lekki,

The Story Everyone Is Telling, and the Part Nobody Mentions Her name is Folake, and I have now heard her story from four different people, which is how you

What Periwinkle Built, and What Everyone Else Did With It The gateman waved me through without asking for my details, which told me something about how the

Record Highs and the People Who Will Never See That Money There is a billboard on the expressway side, somewhere between the Ajah roundabout and the Shopri

The Notice Was Pasted on a Wednesday. By Friday, the Building Was Rubble. The first time I saw a Lagos State demolition notice up close, it was stuck to th