Most Nigerian agents quote a percentage and then stack extras on top until the real cost is anyone's guess. We publish one fee for selling and one for letting, list exactly what each covers, and charge nothing until the job is done. No listing fee, no viewing fee, no surprises at completion.
These are the standard rates for Lagos and Abuja. Other cities and unusual instructions may differ, and everything is confirmed in writing before you commit — but nothing here is hidden and nothing is added later.
Residential or commercial · open-market sale
Residential or commercial · finding a tenant
The way Nigerian tenants and sellers get hurt is fee-stacking — an agency fee, then an agreement fee, then a legal fee, then a caution fee, each a separate percentage, until the move-in or completion cost has ballooned past anything that was quoted. We do not do that.
For a letting, our fee is the 10% and nothing else from you as the landlord. Legal costs for perfecting a sale, and government charges such as Governor's consent, stamp duty and registration, are real and unavoidable — but they are paid to lawyers and to government, not to us, and we show them to you separately so you can see exactly who gets what. We never add a margin to a third party's bill.
Enter a figure and see exactly what we would charge — and, for a sale, what you would be left with after our fee and the typical third-party costs.
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Under the Lagos State Tenancy Law 2011, it is unlawful for a landlord or their agent to demand or receive more than one year's rent in advance from a yearly tenant, or more than six months from a monthly tenant. The common demand for two or three years upfront is, strictly speaking, an offence.
When we act as your letting agent, we are your agent — which means the law binds us as it binds you. So we will market and collect on a one-year basis in Lagos, and we price our letting fee on one year's rent accordingly. If a tenant freely offers to pay more in advance, that is a conversation for you and your lawyer, not something we will solicit on your behalf.
We would rather tell you this at the start than have you learn it from a regulator. It is also, in our experience, no barrier to letting a good property quickly.
Five steps, and a written agreement before any of them start.
We visit, advise on a realistic price or rent, and agree the scope in writing — including the fee, so there is no doubt later.
Photography, a written listing and, for a sale, a check that your documents are in order before we market — because a buyer's lawyer will look.
Across our platform and partner channels, and we handle every enquiry and viewing so you don't field calls from strangers.
We bring you offers with our honest advice, reference tenants or check buyers, and hold the line on your price.
We manage the transaction through to completion alongside your lawyer. Only then do we invoice.
We earn our fee only if a sale or letting completes, so we have an interest in a deal happening. Usually that aligns with you — you want it to happen too. But there are moments where it might not, and you should know them.
We might be tempted to push you toward accepting an offer sooner than you need to, because a completed deal pays us and a drawn-out one does not. We might also offer you other services — verification, legal, a cash purchase through our Quick Sell service — on which we earn separately. Where we do, we tell you, and the cash-offer route in particular pays you below market value, which we will always show you against what an open-market sale through us would net.
You are entitled to your own lawyer, your own valuation from an ESVARBON-registered valuer, and to say no to anything we suggest. A good agent should still be worth more to you than they cost — but you should be able to check that, not just be told it. Our full conflicts position is in our Terms of Service.
When you instruct an agent you are trusting them with your largest asset. You are entitled to ask who they are.
Estate agency in Lagos falls under LASRERA, the Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority. Ask us for our registration, and ask any agent you speak to for theirs — a registered agent can be held to account, an unregistered one cannot.
Where a formal valuation is needed we instruct a valuer registered with ESVARBON. Our own price guidance is a marketing opinion to help you set an asking figure — it is not a valuation, and we never present it as one.
We do not hold client money. Sale proceeds move through your lawyer's client account or a licensed institution, on your instructions — never through us. Anyone asking you to send proceeds to us is not us.
A note for review before publishing: confirm our LASRERA registration status and number, and the ESVARBON registration of the valuers we instruct, before this page goes live. If the operating entity is not yet registered with LASRERA, that should be resolved first — advertising agency services in Lagos without it carries its own risk. Confirm also that the tapered sales scale and the management add-on match what the business will actually honour.
Tell us about the property. We will come back with a realistic figure, our fee in writing, and no obligation to go ahead.
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5% is the standard rate for Lagos and Abuja, and on larger properties our scale tapers below it — a ₦250m sale works out at about 3.4%, not 5%. Some agents will quote you less; a few will quote more. What matters is what the number actually includes. Ours includes photography, marketing, viewings, negotiation and managing the sale to completion, with nothing added later. A lower headline rate with a listing fee, a viewing fee and a "facilitation" fee stacked on top is usually the more expensive deal.
Because the Lagos State Tenancy Law 2011 makes it unlawful for a landlord or their agent to demand more than one year's rent in advance from a yearly tenant. As your agent, that law binds us. Pricing our fee on one year keeps us — and you — on the right side of it. If a tenant chooses to offer more, that is between you, them and your lawyer.
For a sale, on completion — when the money and the property change hands. For a letting, when the tenancy starts. There is no upfront fee, no listing fee and no viewing fee. If we don't sell or let your property, you owe us nothing.
Perfecting a sale — Governor's consent, stamp duty, registration — carries government charges, and you will need a lawyer. Those are real and unavoidable, but they are paid to government and to your lawyer, not to us, and we never add a margin to them. We set them out separately so you can see the full picture, and our fee is only ever the commission shown above.
Yes. You are free to use your own lawyer, and we would encourage it — your lawyer works for you alone. We can recommend firms we work with, but you are never obliged to use them, and if you do, their fee is theirs, disclosed to you, not marked up by us.
Completely different, and it matters. Here we market your property on the open market to get the best price a real buyer will pay, and take 5%. Quick Sell is where we or a partner buy it from you for cash, fast, at 70–85% of market value. Quick Sell is quicker but costs you far more in price. For most sellers who can wait, open-market agency nets more — and we'll tell you honestly which fits your situation.
