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Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Pootle: 11:39am On Sep 04, 2025
very good move but to enforce it the major issue
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Tayorshd87(m): 11:40am On Sep 04, 2025
Usmanovic95:
Good news no doubt, but whoever is linking the landlord with people seeking accomodations won't be doing this for free, someone will still fill that gap.
May God bless you 🤞

That's why I said they should make sure the 10% Lagos state implemented should be accomplished and adhered too..


But yet not all agents are still following the law in Lagos and yet government hasn't arrested anyone yet about it
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by DiarisGodoo: 11:40am On Sep 04, 2025
Lukuluku69:
If it is your Property, he can't dictate what his earnings or commission is, you give him what you feel like (if at all you want to give). There is no Law that says you must pay anyone that brings a Tenant to your property.
See ignorance. They have a Mafia whereby you can't even personally advertise your own house for rent
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by 1phone(m): 11:42am On Sep 04, 2025
Please someone should #tag Lagos state Governor ooo

At least to put an end those greedy street urchins, fraudster and arm rubbers parading as agents in Lagos

Especially lekki phase 2 and Epe
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by yemmit90: 11:43am On Sep 04, 2025
I don't really blame the agents but properties owners who gives their their properties. Some owners are even collecting agent fee, damages and agreements now. That says, even in the absent of agents, some greedy property owners will still collect all this money from prospective tenants.

Nigerians are special breed of humans capable of inflicting pains on other for personal gains.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Father4all: 11:46am On Sep 04, 2025
God bless you Mr Governor
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Cmanforall: 11:49am On Sep 04, 2025
[quote author=Ewuoooo post=136682088]Enforcement is the key word here. Announcing it is easy but implementation is the Koko.[/quote

Commend him first on this


The citizens have laws to fight against the agents, physically or legally cheesy
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Bwanasaraw: 11:51am On Sep 04, 2025
Ecomfreecourse:
Enugu is worse

Those guys are evil the way they behave I just don't gerrit
Agents in Enugu State are from hell. They charge up to 50% of the rent as agent fees. They have not brought that evil Character to Asaba
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Zocalite: 11:52am On Sep 04, 2025
Who will now be the intermediary between landlord and tenant?

Lawyers will be agent now abi

Tenants will pay lawyer fee
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Zocalite: 11:54am On Sep 04, 2025
yemmit90:
I don't really blame the agents but properties owners who gives their their properties. Some owners are even collecting agent fee, damages and agreements now. That says, even in the absent of agents, some greedy property owners will still collect all this money from prospective tenants.

Nigerians are special breed of humans capable of inflicting pains on other for personal gains.
So you will give your house to tenant without collecting damages fee

Lolzzzzz 🤣
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by AdebayoOlatunde: 11:55am On Sep 04, 2025
Ewuoooo:
Enforcement is the key word here. Announcing it is easy but implementation is the Koko.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by fmlala: 11:55am On Sep 04, 2025
They should as well be banned in Oyo state.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by dhope: 11:59am On Sep 04, 2025
lloydtruth:
These funny governors. They want to make it appear as if the high rents or cost of housing is the fault of the agents, when they the governors have refuse to invest in housing schemes.

As a matter of fact, this agent stuff is what is feeding majority of the youths these governors rendered jobless.
Yes, the agency fee feeds lazy folks who don't believe in their ability to be productive. Ask yourself if you will like doing that job till ur old age and don't you feel for the young guys doing it? Youths should stop deceiving themselves, if you cannot farm and make a living from it, learning a skill needed in this age is the key. We have a lot of skill gaps in our economy today because some of inordinate desire of some folks lto make easy and quick money
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by ufotunang: 12:00pm On Sep 04, 2025
Tayorshd87:
It's easier said than done and besides how will someone looking for house to rent get information about them and location of not for agents 🤔

Well I think they should just make sure the 10% fees on commission on whatever they want to rent can be sticked to is the only answer here .


Even in Lagos state sanwo olu announced the 10% but yet only few adhered to it and they haven't arrested anyone yet of such act and it's still going on.


Government can only say words as cheap as anything but for them to manifest it effectively is the biggest problem 😡
..abi..it will not be easy for government to implement it..house agents is like a job or career..and a legitimate job .. house agents are care takers of the house employed by the landlord..in foreign countries abroad they are house agents..if the government ban them how will they survive the hard economy
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Lukuluku69(m): 12:01pm On Sep 04, 2025
DiarisGodoo:
See ignorance. They have a Mafia whereby you can't even personally advertise your own house for rent
It is not ignorance Sir. I know more than a dozen Landlords here in the mainland of Lagos that don't collect Agreement Fee and will only tell any would be Tenants that he doesn't collect nor give Agent Commission. So, if the Tenants so wish he can part with something.

Yes, they can have their Mafia but I own my Property and I give it out to whom I will.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by livinbygrace: 12:01pm On Sep 04, 2025
Zocalite:
Who will now be the intermediary between landlord and tenant?

Lawyers will be agent now abi

Tenants will pay lawyer fee
No need of any intermediary.
In those days landlord or property owner place advert at the front of the available properties or place advert at the media or dailies.
I personal used to go to guardian to place advert,,when there was no internet,not to talk of now that we have internet all over.So agent work is more or less like extortion.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Ezmans: 12:02pm On Sep 04, 2025
Sonnobax15:
lipsrsealed
I love the governor for this...

If only our Delta state governor can replicate this here in Delta state,the massive jubilation that will storm the whole state will be so massive.
dead on arrival
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Bizibi(m): 12:02pm On Sep 04, 2025
Zocalite:
Who will now be the intermediary between landlord and tenant?

Lawyers will be agent now abi

Tenants will pay lawyer fee
it is supposed to be estate surveyors,the law backs to them......
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Nobody: 12:03pm On Sep 04, 2025
The best news of the year. I wish this can be replicated in Lagos.

Agents are the ones prodding apartment owners to increase rent by 600%.

My former landlord wast old how much he could make by raising the rent exponentially. He almost had a heart attack out of excitement.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Ladiesdoctor(m): 12:04pm On Sep 04, 2025
Abuja, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos should not hesitate to apply same.
House agents have become something terrible in the society.
These locations house agents are the worst
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by FunkyJustice(m): 12:06pm On Sep 04, 2025
Not yet time for this Mr Governor, this people bring in Investors though they have der bad side

You should first seek how to secure lives and property in your State
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Zocalite: 12:06pm On Sep 04, 2025
Bizibi:
it is supposed to be estate surveyors,the law backs to them......
How much will estate surveyors collect as fee?

Abi their own na free
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by qtx(m): 12:08pm On Sep 04, 2025
Jakarta:
Good one, Delta and Edo should follow suit please. Imagine an agent charging 500k for a for a rent of 1.6M as if Na me and him papa gather build my house.
In short, all states in Nigeria should follow suit. You see those miscreants called house agents? Some can be heartless and hyper greedy.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Harddiskng(m): 12:09pm On Sep 04, 2025
We need this in Lagos.

There lots have gotten so greedy ehn.

I was looking for a house for a friend, lo and behold the agent wants to charge 600k for a house of 1.2m rent.

When i say the problem of Nigeria is Nigerians, the regular Nigerian. The millions of them. Not your handful of politicians.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Tayorshd87(m): 12:09pm On Sep 04, 2025
ufotunang:
..abi..it will not be easy for government to implement it..house agents is like a job or career..and a legitimate job .. house agents are care takers of the house employed by the landlord..in foreign countries abroad they are house agents..if the government ban them how will they survive the hard economy
Exactly you really understand me ..

The answer is that they should make sure any agent that charges more than 10% of the main house rent be reported to a partner government number or website and they should make a swift action to arrest such agent ..

And yet ask d client to pay 10% and give him access to the house..

Or else it can never work
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Tayorshd87(m): 12:11pm On Sep 04, 2025
Zocalite:
How much will estate surveyors collect as fee?

Abi their own na free
My brother thank you for that question 😊
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Tayorshd87(m): 12:15pm On Sep 04, 2025
yemmit90:
I don't really blame the agents but properties owners who gives their their properties. Some owners are even collecting agent fee, damages and agreements now. That says, even in the absent of agents, some greedy property owners will still collect all this money from prospective tenants.

Nigerians are special breed of humans capable of inflicting pains on other for personal gains.
Yes have experienced this wherebynthe landlord after collecting all extra charges close to 200k then he dropped 10k for three of my friends that are agents to the client that paid 😭😭😭😭

Our problems is not just the government but d citizens
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Zocalite: 12:18pm On Sep 04, 2025
livinbygrace:
No need of any intermediary.
In those days landlord or property owner place advert at the front of the available properties or place advert at the media or dailies.
I personal used to go to guardian to place advert,,when there was no internet,not to talk of now that we have internet all over.So agent work is more or less like extortion.
The advert you go to place in guardian, is it for your house or whose?

Agents are needed for every house except you want tenant to turn you to devil

It's agent that can help you enforce the rules of a house

It's agent that can help you investigate a tenant

It's agent that you hold responsible for bad attitude of a tenant

It's agent that can mediate between you and tenant on issues

..

When a agent is collecting or requesting abnormal fee it's fault of landlord before a tenant pays, the landlord must meet the agent

If the agent put abnormal charges the landlord removes it

Agent fee is 10%
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by DiarisGodoo: 12:19pm On Sep 04, 2025
Lukuluku69:
It is not ignorance Sir. I know more than a dozen Landlords here in the mainland of Lagos that don't collect Agreement Fee and will only tell any would be Tenants that he doesn't collect nor give Agent Commission. So, if the Tenants so wish he can part with something.

Yes, they can have their Mafia but I own my Property and I give it out to whom I will.
It doesn't work that way. Only that I told a lawyer-agent that my tenant moved out and put someone else. His anger was that agent fee was not paid b4 the new person moved in!

Ask this huy below

Harddiskng:
We need this in Lagos.

There lots have gotten so greedy ehn.

I was looking for a house for a friend, lo and behold the agent wants to charge 600k for a house of 1.2m rent.

When i say the problem of Nigeria is Nigerians, the regular Nigerian. The millions of them. Not your handful of politicians.
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by idonhammer: 12:20pm On Sep 04, 2025
So how can you find land to buy or house to rent without involving agenthuh Mumu ban

Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by Akabuking: 12:22pm On Sep 04, 2025
Globad:
So, how will agents be compensated?

Hope they won't start to build it in the rent
their service is not needed
Re: Ebonyi Bans House And Land Agents by gabbytabby: 12:22pm On Sep 04, 2025
The landlord can assist by setting a reasonable rate and insisting that the package is paid to him and he pays the agent.

But some tenants are enablers and will still pay extra to agent they believe this will stand them in better chance in front of others.

I don’t think it will work.
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