The man showed Chioma a property he did not own, collected fifty thousand naira in inspection fees, and disappeared. Multiply that story by the thousand-a-week incidents Lagos buyers actually experience.
A Lekki Phase 1 flat shows up on eight agent pages at eight different prices, none of which are the owner's asking price. This is the duplication problem, and there is finally infrastructure that solves it.
Ask three Lagos agents what a 3-bedroom flat in Lekki is worth and you will get answers spanning forty-five million to one hundred and twenty million naira. The reason is structural, and the fix is well underway.
The biggest single weakness of any independent Nigerian agent's website has nothing to do with design. It is inventory. IDX is the technology that ends that limitation overnight.
Forty-seven WhatsApp groups. The same listings forwarded two hundred times. You can no longer find anything you posted last week, let alone last month. The accidental industry standard is well past its sell-by date.
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In the US, real estate agents must participate in MLS to practise. In the UK, property portals are regulated. Nigeria has neither — and buyers pay the price every day.
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