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Managing Director, Shelter Afrique, James Murgerwa (left); Chief Operating Officer, Afro – Asia Shelters International, Francis Onwuemele and Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fahola, at the signing of MUO between Shelter Afrique and Afro- Asia Shelters International. Fresh building blocks were again laid unto the housing sector last week, when the pan African housing institution, Shelter Afrique endorsed an agreement to support a private sector led effort in the construction of 3,000 unit housing programme in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The deal was sealed at the sideline of the 35th Annual General Meeting and Symposium of Shelter Afrique in Abuja

Sign 5,625 Certificate of  Occupancy The Lagos State Government has generated over N8billion from land matters between May 2015 and March 2016 while Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has signed 5,625 Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) within same period. Mr. Bode Agoro, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Lands Bureau made this known at the ongoing 2016 Ministerial Press Briefing of the Lagos State Government to commemorate the first year anniversary of

Housing In search for ways to meet government’s obligation of providing affordable housing to the teeming population, the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) have agreed to sign an Memoradum of Understanding (MOU) to meet the President Muhammadu Buhari’s annual target of delivering one million housing units. The institutions also agreed to jointly explore opportunities for housing delivery through a number of on-going housing schemes such as the Accelerated Housing Scheme for selected federal MDAs, the Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH) Scheme for federal civil servants amongst others.

  The Lagos State Government has released the sum of N1.6billion as part of its equity contribution in the Lekki Free Zone Development Company (LFDC) to boost the on-going infrastructural development as well as encourage investors’ participation in the project. The Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Prince Rotimi Ogunleye, who disclosed this today at the 2016 Ministerial Press Briefing of the State Government in commemoration of the first year in office of Mr. Akinwunmi  Ambode at the Bagauda  Kaltho Press Centre , Alausa said he is engaging the host communities to ensure a sustainable cordial relationship with investors in the zone.

Asking prices for properties in England and Wales have increased by £8,324 this month, according to Rightmove UK property asking prices have hit an all-time record high of almost £300,000, new data suggests. House sellers so far this month have been seeking an average of £299,287 across England and Wales, according to property website Rightmove. The figure is an increase of £8,324 or 2.9 per cent from the average asking price in January, and is £2,738 above the previous all-time high set in October 2015. The biggest increases were in London, where the average asking price has risen by 10.5 per cent over the last year, to £643,843, and in the East, where it rose 10.7 per cent to £321,630. House prices: how much does it cost to live near your Tube stop?