Compound 50%+ a year
on Nigerian property.
Research frameworks, deal screens and exit logic for the investor who treats real estate like a portfolio. not a punt at a WhatsApp brochure. Built so the next ten years of your capital don't depend on a developer's marketing budget, and so the deals you walk past matter more than the ones you sign.
Nigerian real estate is the best. and the loudest. asset class on the continent.
Every WhatsApp group has a "guaranteed 100% in 12 months" plot somewhere outside Epe. Every other week a new estate launches with a glossy renderer, a celebrity endorsement, and a price that supposedly doubles by handover. Most of them quietly disappear. The buyers don't.
You probably already own at least one piece of land you'd quietly admit you wish you hadn't bought. That's not a personal failure. It's the inevitable outcome of treating an illiquid, multi-million-naira asset class like a Twitter trade.
The investors actually compounding wealth here run a screen before they fall in love, stress-test the developer before they wire, and have a written exit on the day they sign. That's the work. Everything else is just hope dressed up as a thesis.
Six filters between you and a bad deal.
The same screens I run on my own capital. not advisory boilerplate. If a deal can't survive these six filters, it doesn't get my naira and it shouldn't get yours.
Macro-corridor screen
Where the next 5 years of price action will actually happen across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and the secondary cities. and where it won't, regardless of how good the renderer looks. Infrastructure timelines, government corridor decisions, demographic gravity, water and power realities. Most plots underperform not because they were bad land, but because they were bought in the wrong corridor at the wrong moment in the cycle.
Developer due diligence
How to read a track record beyond the brochure. Delivery history vs. promised timelines. Title chain. Escrow setup or lack of one. The five questions that surface a sponsor's real financial position in 20 minutes. before you become the working capital for their next project.
Title and legal stress-test
C of O. Governor's consent. Family land traps. Gazette risk. Right-of-way conflicts. The exact legal framework I run on every personal investment before any naira moves. and the three red flags that mean walk away no matter how good the price.
Unit economics and cash-on-cash
Stop comparing yields off Instagram screenshots. The model that surfaces real ROI net of FX, capital gains tax, vacancy, management fees, and the 'small' fees no one quotes upfront. If a deal needs 100% appreciation to clear your hurdle, it's not an investment. it's a lottery ticket with a deed.
Risk-weighted portfolio allocation
How much in pre-construction (high return, high risk). How much in finished short-let (cash flow). How much in long-hold land bank (capital preservation). Building a portfolio that compounds steadily. and doesn't get wiped when one sub-market cools.
Exit logic written before entry
Holding period. Trigger conditions. Buyer profile at exit. Liquidity path in a downturn. The exit IS the deal. and writing it on day one is the single discipline that separates investors from collectors of expensive paper.
A portfolio you can defend in any room.
- A written investment thesis tied to your goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance
- A repeatable deal-screen you can run in an afternoon, not a quarter
- Direct access to deals before they hit the public market
- A vetted bench: lawyers, surveyors, developers, valuers who answer your call
- Cash flow models, exit triggers and downside scenarios for every position
- Returns that compound. not that headline once and disappear
Build the literacy first. Then deploy the capital.
The cost of getting your investing literacy wrong is one bad N50M plot. The cost of getting it right is the next ten years of your portfolio. Start with the program. Layer in advisory when capital is actively moving.
The two-program ladder used by 425+ private investors. Frameworks, templates and the exact screens I run on personal capital.
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