Nigeriapropertycentre.com has launched its first online competition open to the public titled House Hunting Naija Style. The competition is to encourage people to share their house hunting experience online with the aim to help existing and future house hunters in Nigeria.
To make this competition even more exciting, Nigeria Property Centre is giving away ₦50,000 worth of prizes and air time to their favourite stories and the first 10 stories published by bloggers on their individual website.
To make this competition even more exciting, Nigeria Property Centre is giving away ₦50,000 worth of prizes and air time to their favourite stories and the first 10 stories published by bloggers on their individual website.
To join in the competition you can:
· Write a blog post and publish it on your personal blog
· Drop a comment on any participating blogs including our blogpost
· Feel free to share using the social hashtag #househuntingnaija
· All entries need to be sent to competitions@nigeriapropertycentre.com by the 30th of April 2014.
Nigeriapropertycentre.com is looking to increase the awareness of the real estate industry and to encourage people to find the property of their dreams online and assist in their house hunting experience so be sure to join in and give you honest thoughts and stories!
For more information about the NigeriaPropertyCentre.com competition go to our website – House Hunting Naija style pageand be sure to also read our competition terms and conditions.
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Terms and Conditions
1. The promotion is open to residents of Nigeria and Nigerians home and abroad.
2. Entrants must be 18 years old or over.
3. The promotion begins at on 31st March 2014 and closes at 2359 on 30th April 2014
4. To enter, you must write a blog (minimum word count of 200 words) or drop a comment on any participating blog about a house-hunting experience and email it to competitions@nigeriapropertycentre.com before the closing date.
5. Only one entry per email address. In the event of duplicate entries, only the first submitted entry will be considered in the promotion.
6. No payment or purchase is required to participate in the competition.
7. There are multiple prizes to be won:
- The winner will receive N30, 000 paid into a bank account of their choice. Their story/experience will also get featured on the Nigeria Property Centre blog
- The first 3 runner ups will receive N6,000, N2,500 and N1,500 respectively paid into a bank account of their choice or via recharge card
- The first 10 bloggers to send an entry to competitions@nigeriapropertycentre.com will each receive N1000 recharge card of their choice
8. The prizes must be claimed between 9th May 2014 and 16th of May 2014
9. The prize winners will be judged as the best blog, as selected by the Nigeria Property Centre judges by 9th of May 2014
10. The prize winner will be notified by email within seven (7) days of the draw, using the email address from which the entry was sent.
11. If the promoter is unable to contact the prize winner within 15 days, the prize will be forfeited. A new prize winner will then be selected by the judge from remaining entries.
12. By entering this promotion all participants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by these terms and conditions. All entry instructions form part of these terms and conditions.
13. Losing entries may not receive any notification.
14. Entries will not be considered as part of this promotion if, at the sole discretion of Nigeria Property Centre, they contain language that is in any way threatening, abusive, offensive, defamatory, invasive of another’s privacy, in breach of confidence, embarrassing to any person or likely to deceive any person, hateful, blasphemous, pornographic, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence or otherwise contrary to any law.
15. The names and blogs/comments of the prize winners will be available on the website once it has been announced
16. In the event of unforeseen circumstances the Promoter reserves the right to provide alternative prizes of equal or greater value.
17. The Promoter reserves the right to amend or withdraw this promotion at any time without notice.
18. In all cases the promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. No cash alternative will be offered in whole or in part.
19. The prize winners may be required to take part in related publicity or other marketing related activity, and such participation is a condition of accepting a prize.
20. Nigeria Property Centre accepts no liability or responsibility for entries lost, delayed or undelivered, nor any liability for technical errors or communication failures in networks and/or internet access.
For questions and further inquiries please contact our team at info@nigeriapropertycentre.com.
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF HOUSE HUNTING IN NIGERIA
House hunting in Nigeria is quite hectic.
I had my personal experience in Abuja in 2009. I was looking for One Bedroom Flat as the need for relocation arose. The first means of securing an apartment that occurred to me was going through Estate Firms. By the time i contacted some estate firms to make inquires, i realized they were more interested in selling properties than renting. Few of them that rent houses, had exorbitant agency fees, also their rental flats was far more expensive than my budget.
I decided to resort to road side agents. I was referred to Mark Louis Plaza Wuse II, Beside Valencia Hotel, Abuja. There were quite a lot of agents there. They don’t have offices so its all a game of gamble and you cant really trust road side agents, but i didn’t have any other option, so i decided to take a chance. After talking to few of them, i hired one agent to find me a house.
The guy i hired to find me a house requested for recharge card and fuel money and by the time he showed me up to 12 horrible houses, it was clear that those houses were clearly rejected and waiting for desperate occupants. He didn’t even have the keys to some of the houses so we had to wait for the real agent to appear before the viewing.
I remember vividly one of the one bedroom flats in Jabi Area then, it was a beautiful house, but it was soo small that gas cylinder couldn’t even fit into the kitchen. It was also clear that the room was a self contained house, partitioned to forcefully become one bedroom flat.
Sincerely speaking, after one month waiting and viewing, i was fed up with the agent and his money demanding habit without even delivering a house close to my expectation and my reasonable budget.
Finally, i got my house through word of mouth. My friend told me that someone was moving out of her area in 2 weeks. I went and saw the house and i was very satisfied. I met the care taker of the house and paid 2 weeks before the occupant moved out.
It was quite a risky and hectic experience as i had to leave my office to view those horrible houses and meet road side agents. They all had similar contacts and there was no need trying many of the agents. It was a big relief finally finding a home and i never want to experience such in my life again.
2. I haven’t used Nigeria property center before but i recently heard about them. They seems to be organised in property search in Nigeria as they have a property listing website and you can sign up for their newsletter via email.
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looking for house or hunting for property can really be a hectic one in Nigeria, and many a time, it can be frustrating and heart aching, but with Nigeria property Center, its getting a property made so easy, with their online platform, you are just a click of getting that much needed and awaited property of your dream
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Gloria, can one share her experience right here on ur blog?
Yes dear. Its part of the competition.
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