Ndubisi Onwuanyi

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University | ANSU

The services of professionals in construction and the built environment are vital to successful project delivery and management. Of the available array of expertise, the estate surveyor’s positions him for involvement in the property from inception to delivery and thereafter. This paper focuses on construction projects in Lagos and Port Harcourt by...

Nigeria's most prominent real estate markets are Lagos and Abuja. Between the years 2011 to 2015 saw unusually steep prices and pronounced vacancies in Abuja's high-end residential segment compared to Lagos'. This discrepancy suggests market differences which are deserving of investigation. This paper, therefore, comparatively examines these two ma...

Tenement Rate (TR) has been a feature of municipal funding in Nigeria since colonial times. In 2001, Lagos State, one of Nigeria's sub-national units, introduced in its stead the Land Use Charge (LUC) which has subsequently been adopted by four other sub-national units of Nigeria: Anambra, Edo, Enugu and Ogun States. These developments suggest that...

The relevance of professions may be judged by the observed need for their services; their socioeconomic impact; and the influence which they exert. In the case of Nigeria's estate management profession, officially founded in 1969, the elapsed time raises the expectation that relevance has been achieved. This paper examines the profession's status,...

The book introduces the subject of property valuation in ways designed to simplify learning, lessen difficulties and facilitate understanding amongst learners. It focuses on, and thoroughly explains, valuation theory and mathematics. The valuation formulae are classified by main formulae and their variants; by function;and by reciprocal relationshi...

The continuous development of membership proficiency is a principal objective of professional bodies. Some of the outcomes of this pursuit are new thinking and new knowledge typically generated, discovered or established by redefining old problems, creating insights and seeking better ways of doing things. These serve to drive proficiency and the a...

Urban planning affords cities the opportunity of accommodating all land needs for living, working and recreation. This helps to promote environmental sustainability and urban liveability. The apparent under-provision of recreational land use in Benin City, one of Nigeria’s most populated urban centres, suggests a shortcoming in the spatial configur...

Sustainable and resilient urban environments are created by fitting environmental practices. One important area of practice is land development where the guidance of regulatory authorities and the compliance of developers together work to shape the built environment. Where this partnership does not exist or is not effective, inappropriate land deve...

It is a comparative study of two of Nigeria's least reported, but most proximate property markets and regional economic hubs which, together, offer great potential for local, regional and national development.

The primacy of shelter amongst human needs rationalises the commitment of governments across the world to house production and home ownership. Nigeria shares these aspirations, but the views recently expressed by its housing minister appear contradictory to policy and received wisdom. For a start, the minister denies Nigeria's much reported 17-20-m...

Every profession is differentiated by its specialised functions for which performance entrants require and receive specialised training. The function of valuation, which requires specialised training of entrants, distinguishes the estate management profession. In Nigerian universities, the study of valuation starts at 200 level with introductory pr...

Land use land cover change (LULCC) processes are directly or indirectly product of underlying causative factors playing out on the landscape. This study examines the contributing factors responsible for LULCC in Jos Plateau state using two different methods. The Analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and Binary models were used to prepare sixteen (1...

Purpose This paper explores the relevance of inter-market research to improving knowledge in property markets. It focuses on Nigeria's emergent property market which JLL (2018) suggests is information challenged. Given the country's lack of property data management, it is posited that inter-market studies can help to improve information supply and...

Street trees constitute a core component of modern urban environments due to their acknowledged advantages. Benin City, Nigeria’s 6th largest urban centre by population, is highly deficient in this important infrastructure and environmental resource. The deficiency is particularly noticeable on the major streets of the city which also are its longe...

Purpose: This study examines how information accessibility in property markets is enabled by information sources, characteristics and flow channels. Nigeria and the UK are compared based upon Jones Lang LaSalle’s (2018) assessments of the former as “lowly transparent” (information challenged) and the latter as “transparent” (information sufficient)...

In the shaping of cities as physical environments, planning governance is a principal factor which has sustainability implications for the entire urban system. This suggests that planning governance is a factor which has the potential to contribute to the occurrence of environmental challenges as well their resolution. Nigeria's cities are facing m...

Achieving the accommodation of all land needs, complementarity and functionality are amongst the main objectives of land use planning. Thus, urban space which serves no particular purpose in the system is akin to a weak link in a chain and does not promote effective management. Following reports about the deterioration of Benin City's most prominen...

To serve their correct purpose, land markets need to be effective and efficient. This requires the presence of certain indicative features and conditions as identified in research on developed land markets. However, published studies on the Lagos, Abuja and Enugu land markets have identified certain shortcomings, suggesting hindrances to effectiven...

Data on Nigeria’s property sector tends to be inadequate and inaccessible. While the government produces statistics for its own activities, such as GDP and inflation rates, other sectors function with insufficient information. This is particularly true for Nigeria’s property sector and its data which have been given a lesser status despite an incre...

Public buildings are communal property. Thus, the manner in which they are kept is indicative of the priorities of the owning community, society or state. This means that the recognition or value which society places on such buildings is deducible from their situation. In its first two decades of statehood, Nigeria developed public buildings which,...

Real estate investment decisions are rationally made. Thus, the parties to a transaction, whether buying, selling or letting, come to agreement upon the conviction that value will be directly received in exchange. This indicates a uniformity of intention and expectation. However, Lagos lettings usually result in an unequal exchange of value. This o...

Governance capacity determines the effectiveness of urban environments and systems. Thus, unplanned landscapes and poor land management as commonly observed in Nigeria's cities, are a reflection of poor governance. This has led many researchers to conclude that these spaces are characterised by the "absence" of public sector governance. Following t...

Despite Nigeria’s near-total dependence on roads for the movement of people, produce, goods and services, the country is commonly described as having a poor culture of maintenance. This is because the usual state of her roads does not appear to reflect an adequate official acknowledgement of their vital socio-economic functions. Published research...

The fact that Enugu City's nearly 60-year-old Polo Park was, without local resistance displaced by a mall development in 2009, is an issue which warrants examination because of possible implications for society. This paper addresses the issue from the viewpoint of value(s): environmental value, market value and society's values, on the supposition...

Nigeria's international airports have attained a somewhat poor reputation in regard to service quality. At the largest and busiest of them all, the Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LMMIA), the authorities have been taking action to expand and improve facilities, just as in the country's 21 other airports. However, the results achieved...

The sustainable management of capital projects encompasses not only successful completion, but also, successful life cycle management. Experience in the Nigerian public sector is that projects tend to deteriorate a few years after commissioning because maintenance is either unplanned or not effectively pursued, thereby making sustainable management...

In seeking to mitigate the adverse consequences of human displacement across the world, the UN, in addition to promoting international covenants which protect human and shelter rights, adopted the 2014 Convention on Forced Evictions which requires the abjuration of force and violence; employment of consultation and dialogue and provision of options...

Creating a sustainable urban landscape demands adequate provision for all categories of land use and the effective management of such spaces. However, urban management in Nigeria appears to pay little attention to space for the dead as can be observed in the poor physical and environmental conditions of public cemeteries. This situation amounts to...

Creating a sustainable urban landscape demands adequate provision for all categories of land use and the effective management of such spaces. However, urban management in Nigeria appears to pay little attention to space for the dead as can be observed in the poor physical and environmental conditions of public cemeteries. This situation amounts to...

A case study of Benin City as an example of the many Nigerian cities in which there is a great dearth of open spaces

Unplanned land use in most Nigerian cities has meant that all urban land needs are not adequately provided for within their landscapes. Open spaces are either conspicuously missing or inadequate. There is a tendency for existing open spaces to be lost to urban development pressure and a disregard for zoning. This paper identifies available and acce...

Recognition of built heritage and its preservation are issues of importance to communities and nations for reasons such as learning, identity, tourism among others. However, knowledge of what constitutes built heritage is essential if it is to be properly assessed. This paper investigates what qualities define built heritage in Nigeria using as cas...

The common causes of construction collapse are mainly design, materials, accidents, the elements, workmanship and supervision. Regarding the increasingly frequent incidents in the Lagos Metropolis, published findings of researchers have not been markedly different. This paper argues that beyond the technical issues already raised, there are importa...

The bureaucratic approach to the management of the National Arts Theatre Complex (NATC) since inception has proved to be unsuitable and ineffective as indicated by its present maintenance status and public commentary over the years. Relying on observations made from a physical inspection of the NATC structure and its facilities, documented public c...