... costs and house rents fluctuations in Osogbo, Nigeria, to provide information for informed investment decisions. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey, where three sets of questionnaires were administered on building contractors; estate surveyors and valuers and private...

...) of an organisation that is not in real estate business. The study evaluated the required training needs of estate surveyors and valuers for the practice of CREM in a developing country like Nigeria. The sample population for the study is composed of practising estate surveyors and valuers, corporate real...

... at the recruitment stage. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for an exploratory study with questionnaires administered to estate surveyors (professional property managers in Nigeria). Respondents were randomly selected based on Bartlett et al.'s model with margin of error set at 0.05...

.... Findings The result shows that the high income derivable from property management practice is a major factor. Other factors in their perceived order of importance include provision of unsatisfactory and less than standard service by estate surveyors, lack of confidence by clients on the estate surveyor...