Rapmoney:
Na enjoyment una dey so o!

Rapmoney:
As a property manager and one who has visited many Nigerian cities, I did a research/survey and came out with the result of the top 5 cities in Nigeria where one would need to belt himself/herself very well before renting an apartment! This survey was carried out with the accommodation costs of houses/apartments found in condusive environments or areas characterized with the usual facilities that are found in an average African city. By this, this survey did not cover rural areas (villages), please.

1) ABUJA: In terms of the cost of renting an apartment, be it flat, self-con or bed-sitter, Abuja (the main city), is a place where you really need to eat 'bellefull' before doing that. This can really reduce your savings to a frustrating amount! It's in places like Maitama that you would see a one-bedroom flat that goes for 1million Naira!!! Any landlord/house agent who puts up same house for that amount in Benin-City is surely an 'Enemy of Progress' Are we buying the house? It's because of this that made many residents of Abuja to move to surburbs or outskirts of the city.

2) LAGOS: I discovered that most of the mini-flats in Lagos mainland are above 300k a year. You can get this same apartment, even with better facilities and in a more serene environment, at half the price, in Akure. When I saw the bed-sitter a friend of mine paid for at Oregun for 10k monthly, I wept!!!

3) WARRI: This would have come after Port-Harcourt but it seems as if some house owners here think everyone is scooping crude oil from the ground since it's called the 'Oil City'. Sometimes, mini-flats go for as high as 18k monthly!!! 3 bedroom flats in good environments can cost 480k-500k per year; sometimes, 600k.

4) PORT-HARCOURT: Rentage in PH City is not too different from what's obtainable in Warri.

5) ENUGU: Sometimes, a bed-sitter that's so small to an extent where you won't even have enough space to stretch your hands in the morning without knocking off things in your room, could go for as high as 100k-110k per year! Even places like Obiagu and Artisan!!! The rentage cost of 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom flats in places like Loma Linda/Independence Layout/GRA, can make an unemployed man die before his time!!!

Compiled by Rapmoney

dandollaz:
And u mention enugu without owerri.op if u want to generalize town it should be
Abuja
Portharcourt
Lagos
owerri
warri
enugu.
Not everywhere in lagos is expensive but everywhere in abuja and phc is expensive do ur research well.

Baroba:


You can say it a again, I just helped my brother rent a One bedroom " apartment" in Trans Ekulu Enugu.. Breakdown, one year rent 150,000, agency fee 30,000, Legal fee 40,000, caution fee 20,000..

This is a state were most of its inhabitants are civil servants and students.. Shocking

irisola:
and AKURE

Rapmoney:
Na enjoyment una dey so o!

kuuljay:
I just went to see a room in new GRA in enugu without kitchen for 260 plus 80 for agent and lawyer=340 I told the corper he may have to stay in my house, enugu is really really expensive. And the most annoying is that three quarter of enugu does not have running water

Gboliwe:


80k in Uyo?

And with water?

Bro, you are NOT in Uyo. You must be in ObotAkara, Ikono or Ika. You won't even get it this cheap in Ibesikpo, Abak or IK which are areas near Uyo

Rapmoney:
The difference in price is not much between Uyo and Calabar, though, I know accommodation is not cheap in Calabar.

happydavies:
am paying 300k for 1bedroom flat in ph,n my sis pays 250k for selfcon,abeg who get mind call uyo here?

badblog:
When I see house prices in Nigeria I laugh.. The system in UK I just so expensive. A one month flat rent here can rent good 2 bed in lagos for one year.

I wish one can make the money in uk and sleep in Nigeria. Lol

macjireh:



BROS SORRY TO SAY OOO, U AF LYE!!!

NOT EVERY 2BEDROOM FLAT IN WARRI IS 350K/YR....... IN FACT MOST 2BEDRUM FLATS WILL GO FOR FAR LESS DAN DAT,,,,,,I HAVE STAYED IN WARRI. DAT MONEY SHOULD BE 4 3BEDROOM FLAT MOST LIKELY

Gboliwe:


Bwahahaha. 3/4 of residents don't have water? Smh

Just so you know, Enugu's water supply is the best and most efficient I have seen in most Nigerian states (and I have been to many) . To buttress the point, Enugu is the state with the least private boreholeS and overhead tanks for water storage. I have lived in enugu for 5 years now,is there water in Trans Ekulu, abakpa,emene,maryland etc? And why are there soo many water tankers on the road? You can't did borehole in enugu metro because it's sitting on coal that's why even hotels buy water the deepest you can get is digging a well bro,get your facts right

stunningjudy:
op, why is yenegoa not on your list? 1 bedroom flat goes as high as 400k in yenegoa, self con as high as 250k. landlords just try to get back money spent on building. i cant blame them entirely because the cost of building in yenegoa is high due to the nature of the land (swamp).

surestsam:
bro, i think you should do your research well too , d op pick lagos as a state.. He didnt pick d expensive cities at lagos... Lagos should b compare to Rivers. Plus the op mentioned lagos mainland.. I wonder why he chose that ahead of lagos island...

Rapmoney:
The self-con you mentioned is commonly referred to as bed-sitter. It's totally outrageous for bed-sitter to go for 250k!!! What type of jobs do these people do? Baffles me.

surestsam:
Akure too cheap nw, cant be in the first 20 expensive cities sef...

Ermmmm.. Before you quote me, know that i stayd at akure for 7years... I left ak 2014..

happydavies:
am paying 300k for 1bedroom flat in ph,n my sis pays 250k for selfcon,abeg who get mind call uyo here?

irisola:

and me am living in akr.. nt schooling there tho bt akr is my domicile

chigoizie7:
Me, I have no idea of all these places una d mention.

But awka gat no chills.

Can u imagine a 1bedroom flat going @ 400k in Ngozika? 2bedroom flats @ 450k @ udoka. Around 600k for 2bedroom flats @ ngozika, let me forget about 3bedroom flats. Awka as a whole is fvckingly expensive in terms of rent. In student environment a room that is not upto 9ft by 9ft is around 120-150k, it is not as if water is guaranteed 247 oh,
These people are just mean

InyinyaAgbaOku:

They are not talking of estates. Estates are expensive everywhere

Laburus:
Lol., Ok wait a Moment..,

I am Paying 700k in Abuja for One Bedroom flat My Cousin is Paying 500k for self Contain...,abeg who get Mind to call PH?




Point is we all feel the heat in our own different ways...,