Purpose: This paper examines why some sets of people choose an informal way to acquire land. It also examines challenges and drivers within indigenous communities in South-western Nigeria. Policy recommendations were proposed for formalization. What precisely are the contextual reasons that can...

Purpose – Management factors of recalcitrant tenants in residential premises have become central concerns of many private residential property owners in Ibadan metropolis. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causes and dimension of the phenomena so as to prevent the loss of rent...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence of ethnic bias in residential tenancy and the relationship between ethnic bias tendency of property managers/landlords and their demographic features. Design/methodology/approach – Data for the study were gathered from...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the strategies adopted by Nigerian banks to integrate the management of their real estate assets into the overall business objectives. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires were distributed to the corporate real estate managers of the 24...

Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the practice of dispute resolution in Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, Lagos State. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires were distributed to two study groups of 400 users/occupiers and officials of the managing agents. A total of 100 were...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine whether valuers consider and interpret intrinsic value elements in a residential property the same way in a familiar location. The price people pay for a complex commodity like residential property is a sum of the utility of various...

Purpose – In recent years, studies have established that valuation estimates are likely to be biased estimates of market values due to client influence. These studies, which have made a significant contribution to real estate literature, were based mainly on UK, USA and New Zealand experience....

Purpose – A significant number of published empirical studies of real estate auctions abound in real estate literature. These studies focus on the auction price formation process through the comparison of sales from different auctions to revenue from private negotiations. While these studies...