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Nigeria’s Real Estate Market In 2025: Strong Demand, Investment Remains Selective
Nigeria's real estate market in 2025 navigates cautious stabilisation amid easing inflation and more orderly FX conditions, yet high borrowing costs and constrained purchasing power continue to limit broad-based growth. How are investors responding to these mixed signals, and which property segments are demonstrating the strongest resilience in this challenging environment?
Nigeria Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Ghana’s Real Estate Market In 2025: Recovery With Restraint
Easing inflation and lower interest rates are reviving activity in Ghana's real estate sector, but financing constraints and land administration bottlenecks continue to define the market's limits. The sector reflects a controlled recovery in 2025, with steady but uneven growth across residential, commercial, and logistics segments as developers prioritise efficiency and sustainable design over volume expansion.
Ghana Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Senegal’s Real Estate Market In 2025: Dakar Concentration, Emerging Corridors, And Medium-Term Prospects
Senegal's real estate market in 2025 reflects improved macroeconomic stability with lower inflation and stronger growth expectations driven by hydrocarbons, yet development activity remains measured due to persistent financing constraints, infrastructure gaps, and policy transition effects. The market is heavily concentrated in Dakar, with gradual eastward expansion along growth corridors like Diamniadio, while developers prioritize execution quality, affordability, and strategic location selection over agg
Senegal Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Investing In Lagos Real Estate: Key Government Reforms And Opportunities For Investors And Developers
Lagos State is transforming its real estate sector through digital land administration, faster approval processes, and regulatory reforms that reduce development costs and delays. These government initiatives are creating new opportunities for investors and developers across affordable housing, commercial real estate, mixed-use developments, and transit-oriented projects, while improving transparency and access to development finance.
Nigeria Real Estate
OA
Olisa Agbakoba Legal (OAL)
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Nigeria’s Real Estate Market In 2025: Strong Demand, Investment Remains Selective
Nigeria's real estate market in 2025 navigates cautious stabilisation amid easing inflation and more orderly FX conditions, yet high borrowing costs and constrained purchasing power continue to limit broad-based growth. How are investors responding to these mixed signals, and which property segments are demonstrating the strongest resilience in this challenging environment?
Nigeria Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Ghana’s Real Estate Market In 2025: Recovery With Restraint
Easing inflation and lower interest rates are reviving activity in Ghana's real estate sector, but financing constraints and land administration bottlenecks continue to define the market's limits. The sector reflects a controlled recovery in 2025, with steady but uneven growth across residential, commercial, and logistics segments as developers prioritise efficiency and sustainable design over volume expansion.
Ghana Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Land Law & Agriculture

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Côte d’Ivoire Real Estate Market Outlook: Demand Resilience and Delivery Challenges
Côte d'Ivoire's real estate market demonstrates strong demographic momentum and macroeconomic stability, yet formal sector expansion faces significant constraints from land administration challenges, affordability pressures, and limited housing finance. How do structural frictions in land titling, construction costs, and regulatory processes shape investment outcomes across residential, commercial, and industrial segments through 2025-2026?
Cote D'ivoire Real Estate
uA
Firmus Advisory
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Nigeria’s Lithium Boom: Mineral Ownership, Mining Licences, Land Rights, And How To Mine Them Legally
Nigeria has confirmed world-class mineral deposits including lithium reserves estimated at 3.3 million tonnes near Abuja, but a critical legal reality complicates extraction: under Nigerian law, minerals belong to the Federal Government regardless of land ownership. This creates a complex regulatory landscape where investors must navigate federal mineral rights, state surface rights, community development agreements, and a tiered licensing system that has already seen over 3,000 titles revoked for non-compl
Nigeria Energy
OA
Olisa Agbakoba Legal (OAL)
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Transfer Duty And Instalment Sale Agreements: Understanding Section 20 Of The Alienation Of Land Act
Instalment sale agreements offer flexibility in South African property transactions, but many purchasers misunderstand when transfer duty becomes payable. Under Section 20 of the Alienation of Land Act, transfer duty liability may arise at the date of agreement signature—long before ownership actually transfers—creating unexpected financial obligations that require careful legal and tax planning from the outset.
South Africa Real Estate
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Barnard Inc.
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