Browsing: Lagos Real Estate & Neighbourhoods

The signboard was not subtle. They rarely are in this city, but this one had committed to the idea in a way that made you slow down on the expressway to lo

The foundation blocks were already going in when I arrived. Seven in the morning, the sun not yet at full strength but the heat already sitting on everythi

Tunde had the look of a man who had already made a decision and was now at the stage of needing someone to confirm it was right. He had sold his two-bedroo

The land registrar’s office smelled like old paper and patience that had long since expired. I had been sitting on a wooden bench for two hours and forty m

Rasheed showed me the receipt on his phone. A screenshot, slightly blurry at the edges the way screenshots always are when someone has forwarded them throu

The gate was the first thing I noticed. Not because it was beautiful, though it was, dark raw steel with no markings, no compound number, no phone number p

The first thing you notice when you enter the Jakande Estate in Lekki is the wall. Not the original boundary, which has been contested, encroached upon, an

A client sat across from me in March, a woman who had been saving for eleven years and had finally pulled together enough to make a serious property decisi

Isimi Lagos Is Quietly Becoming the Most Valuable Land Bet in West Africa I drove past the Isimi Lagos signage for the third time before I actually stopped

The woman who answered the door had lived in that flat since 1982. She was one of the original allottees, she told me, pointing at a framed certificate on