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 an omission of, as well as a failure in, the duty to plan for, and effectively manage, all urban land needs. This paper investigates the three public cemeteries in Benin City to ascertain their physical and environmental conditions and management practices. Data for this study was gathered through primary and secondary sources: the cemeteries and their surroundings were physically inspected; data on cemetery management obtained directly from the responsible local officials; other data came from literature, publications and the archives. The findings confirm all three cemeteries to be in a neglected state; are challenged by a dearth of skilled staff, the absence of modern equipment and management techniques; and, being fenced-off from public view and almost always in an overgrown state, effectively are excluded from the urban environment. The recommendations are for an overhaul of these facilities and the institution of modern management charged with a mission to create environmentally-friendly, physically attractive and visually accessible cemeteries.
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 increasing economic importance for investment opportunity, GDP contribution and attraction of foreign investment funds. The gap in data creates a challenging situation for property valuers, but also, an opportunity for property researchers. This paper, which reviews existing literature on the subject, is a contribution to the debate as well as an effort towards a solution. The literature stipulates that poor accessibility to property data leads valuers to enact coping mechanisms rather than best practice and that property data is synonymous with market transactions which makes it invaluable to valuers. Also, there is a convergence of views in the reviewed literature that a central data bank offers opportunities for a solution. Conversely, it is here argued that focusing on market transactions is a narrow understanding of data as property data extends beyond such transactions. This school of thought believes that the users and uses of property transaction data extend beyond valuers and valuations and that the central data bank recommendation requires examination as to its feasibility. Accordingly, this paper broadens the definition of property data by recognising the existence of non-market data, by identifying its other users and uses as well as its role in socio-economic policies. The considerable doubts associated with the central data bank recommendation leads the study to make recommendations which are novel, but nevertheless, hold holistic methods for addressing Nigeria’s property data challenge.
PurposeThis 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 market knowledge. Inter-market research in Nigeria is compared with the UK's established market where such research is a key information source.Design/methodology/approachAn online database search was used to collate published intra-market and inter-market research on Nigeria's property market between 2009 and 2019. The inter-market research were thereafter examined as to volume and scope (geographical and thematic) and compared with the UK's.FindingsRelative to the UK, the volume as well as scope (geographical and thematic) of inter-market research in Nigeria are respectively far lower and narrower, thereby producing less information overall. Only a few Nigerian studies provide insights of two or more local markets. There is little or no research on many important market issues and other urban markets in the system. This suggests that inter-market research is relatively undeveloped in Nigeria.Research limitations/implicationsThe online search approach used to assemble extant research in the absence of a research repository may have resulted in the omission of some inter-market research undertaken between 2009 and 2019 if these were not published online.Practical implicationsThe dearth of inter-market research in Nigeria suggests an inadequately researched market. This limits market information, market knowledge, suggests a low market competitiveness with implications for development in view of the role of property in the modern economy.Originality/valueIn view of the little attention given to inter-market research in Nigeria, this study draws attention to its potential for improving market knowledge by the production of information which has a wider market relevance.
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 markets by exploring the economic concepts of price and value which sustain the market system. The data was sourced by a questionnaire administered to estate surveyors and valuers as well as the asking prices from property archives. The main finding of this paper is that Abuja's prices and rents significantly exceed Lagos' despite it being a less economically productive city. One can conclude that the Lagos market is more resilient while Abuja's buoyancy is more apparent than real.
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