Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and top players in real estate have been penned down for recognition in the 2017 edition of the Prestige Real Estate Award (PREA) for their giant strides in hospitality cum housing sector of the economy.
While Ambode will also be the Chief Host. In the same vein, Lagos State Commissioner for Housing, Hon. Gbolahan Lawal will receive award of excellence for his contribution to housing and real estate development while notable players in real estate will be recognized.
The event slated for December 13, 2017 at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry Conference and Exhibition Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, with the theme “Affordable Housing Amidst Many Challenges: The Way Forward”, has Mr. Stanley Obi, popularly known as Apostle Landlord, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Salescraft Properties Limited, as the Guest Speaker.
The award will also honour top banks in the country which have hugely financed real estate business to a level that the once almost moribund sector has turned to become a frontline venture. There can be no tangible growth in the housing sector without the commitment of banks making money available to erect the structures.
In this category Access, UBA, GTB and Zenith banks will be rewarded for investing heavily in Nigeria’s real estate sector.
PREA 2017 is a brainchild of Prestige International Magazine and Prestige International Online created essentially to reward investors, practitioners and policymakers in the real estate business in Nigeria for their integrity, hardworking and proclivity in nurturing the housing sector to an enviable status endearing to all, home and abroad.
Prestige Magazine crew hinged the award to their organizational belief of appreciating doggedness and proactive people who have tried to make the sector a very lucrative venture for all stakeholders in the building sector.
The organizers of the prestigious award, having keenly observed the development and growth of the real estate business in the past few years from the point of effective use of land to managing large estate found it impeccable to reward those who have lent their individual knowledge, investment, and voice to making real estate business in the country a viable venture where both the lessors and the lessees, landlords and tenants, are able to regularly smile to the bank.
The organizers of the award have brainstormed and concluded that the people who are responsible for this push-up in the real estate sufficiently deserved to be recognized, at least to encourage them to do more in creating decent living environment to all in line with the plan of God for all creatures.
