DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A CAREER IN REAL ESTATE? READ THIS!

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN REAL ESTATE BUT STUCK WITH WHAT YOU STUDIED IN SCHOOL OR THE JOB YOU ARE AT CURRENTLY?

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Are you interested in or just even fascinated by real estate? Do you desire to have your share of the Giga billions exchanging hands in the real estate (built) sector?

Now, you will no longer be able to say you don’t know how to make Estate Management as a Surveyor & Valuer your next choice of career.

No matter what your present vocation is, so far as you are a University or Polytechnic graduate, you can before a Chartered Estate Surveyor and Valuer counting your share of the billions if not trillions in this industry in as short a time as 3years!

We have the system to deliver this!

Who is an Estate Surveyor & Valuer?

Someone who carries out the inspection, market survey and analysis of real estate is an estate surveyor (i.e. estate market surveyor). He then uses his inspection and market survey data to arrive at the value of the asset. Thus, putting the two names together, he is an Estate Surveyor and Valuer.

The course leading to this profession is usually called Estate Management in Nigerian Universities and it is offered within the Environmental Sciences Faculty. The Surveyor and Valuer’s functions include among others, services such as  property management, Valuation of assets, Feasibility and Viability studies, Estate agency, Public lands administration, Land use planning and Management, Project Management, Property deal counselling, Arranging finance for investment, Arbitration.

 Entry Requirements:

Five credits in SSCE/GCE including English, Mathematics and Economics and minimum of 3 years in a registered office. Unaccredited OND Estate Management Programme. OND of allied professions with minimum of one and half year in a registered office. Graduates of non-allied courses.

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers is a non-profit, voluntary, professional organization set up and registered in 1969 as a professional body to cater for the interest of the landed profession in Nigeria. Six years later that is in 1975, it got Government recognition through the promulgation of the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration etc. Act (See Laws of Nigeria 1990, Volume 7, Chapter III) which is more popularly known as Decree Number 24, of 1975.

The Act No. 24 of 1975 established the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board, which is the organ of Government that regulates the practice of Estate Surveying and Valuation profession in Nigeria.

If there is any industry worth belonging, it is the real estate industry. It is the fulcrum on which life itself rests and it is said to be worth tones of billions if not trillions as everything in life has to do with a piece of real estate.Now, how do you become one of the players in the Real Estate (Built) industry having access to your fair share of the giga billions?

You will need to start on a journey of examinations called Professional Examinations (PQE) 1 to 3 and Professional Practice Examination (PPE). It is written every September (once in a year) and you should be through with the examinations in 3-4years. The first hurdle however will be to join the association as a Student member and this you can do once you are a graduate. We are positioned to assist you in the process all the way.

To change career is not easy and may not happen in a flash. But the whole world agrees on one basic fact about career change; getting relevant training is essential to success. You don’t want to start out in something new from the back field; disadvantaged. Check out my list of some of the steps you should go through while preparing to change career;

Step 1: Assessment of Likes and Dislikes, 

Step 2: Researching New Careers,  

Step 3: Transferable Skills,   

Step 4: Training and Education,  

 Step 5: Networking,                 

Step 6: Gaining Experience,  

Step 7: Find a Mentor,     

Step 8: Change within your present engagement or outof    it and         

Step 9: Be ready and flexible as you may need to change location, etc

Thank you.