The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos State branch, has joined hands with Echostone Nigeria Limited, a housing development firm, to promote research and knowledge acquisition in real estate.
To concretise the aim of this partnership, the duo have built a library and equipped it with relevant text books. The facility which is located within the branch’s Secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos, is an addition to other projects the institution has executed in the state.
The library is a very good resource for both students and researchers on the real estate market, especially the Lagos market which is, arguably, the good destination for investment.
“This is a beautiful and conducive place for research and knowledge acquisition. I am very happy to be part of this event today. This library is a resource centre for estate surveyors and valuers in Lagos,” said Gersh Henshaw, chairman, Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON), who commissioned the facility.
The library will operate as both physical and virtual knowledge space for real estate practitioners who are members of the Lagos branch.
Adedotun Bamigbola, the branch chairman, noted that the library was a project of high importance disclosing that it had run through many Executive Committees of the branch in the last 8 years. “We are happy that we have been able to make it come on stream just before the end the current Exco,” he said.
“The library is built in partnership with Echostone Nigeria Limited which was also trying to do something critical for real estate knowledge development. We are happy that this is a partnership that has worked and we are grateful to the company for partnering with us on this project,” the branch chairman explained.
He disclosed that the Library would function as both physical and online facility as there were computers activated with internet at the library which would be open from Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm just before the secretary closes at 5pm.
The library is already stocked with very relevant and contemporary books in Estate Management and, according to the chairman, more books were still welcome to fill up its many shelf cells.
He urged students of Estate Management who were members of the branch to make good use of the library, saying, “we want to implore members of the branch and other stakeholders in the real estate sector to donate books to the library.”
