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Over the past 5 years, spanning 2020 to 2025, property worth in Lagos has spiked to unprecedented ranges, with Banana Island’s land main the pack with 540 % value improve to succeed in N3.05 million per sq. metre.
With this, the elite enclave that gives properties for Nigeria’s ultra-rich residents has reaffirmed its standing because the apex of worth. It’s adopted carefully by Ikoyi, the place land worth has appreciated 412 % to N2.15 million per sq. metre.
Analysts say these areas stay not solely fascinating residential areas but in addition profitable funding locations promising sturdy returns in a comparatively brief interval.
Different Lagos Island neighborhoods have additionally witnessed important appreciation. Oniru, generally known as Victoria Island Extension, has seen land costs rise sharply. Knowledge from Property Hyperlinks Restricted, a agency of property surveyors and valuers, exhibits that land in Oniru bought for between N150,000 and N250,000 per sq. metre in 2020. By 2021, costs had climbed to between N200,000 and N350,000, and immediately a sq. metre prices over N1.2 million.
Yemi Stephen, managing accomplice at Property Hyperlinks, instructed BusinessDay that the rise in Oniru’s worth is not any accident, noting deliberate efforts by managers and residents to make the world enticing for each dwelling and funding.
Elsewhere, Osborne Foreshore Section 1 land sells for round N1.7 million per sq. metre, relying on location, a premium, although nonetheless beneath Previous Ikoyi and much from Banana Island’s peak.
Residential properties have additionally seen exponential worth appreciation in Lagos within the final 5 years for each gross sales and leases. As an example, 5 years in the past, a two-bedroom residence in Oniru went for between N2.5 million and N4 million each year. Immediately, a two-bedroom residence in Oniru goes for between N8 million and N10 million each year.
A 3-bedroom flat in 2020 went for between N3 million and N5 million each year. Immediately, it goes for between N10 million and N16m each year.
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In 2020, a four-bedroom townhouse was bought for N80 million – N90 million. Now, the identical measurement of home sells between N425 million and N550 million, displaying an all-time excessive worth appreciation inside 5 years.
A report by Edala Improvement, an actual property growth firm, notes that the Lagos property market has demonstrated immense energy, despite the challenges within the broader economic system and a excessive rate of interest setting.
“Whereas the actual property providers sector cooled to a 3.50 % GDP development price in Q3 2025 down from its 8.01 % peak in Q1 2024, the development sector surged to five.57 %. This pivotal rotation confirms that capital is actively transferring away from speculative valuation in direction of tangible asset creation pushed by an enormous housing deficit of three.396 million models,” the report says.
Temidayo Oloyede, co-founder and CEO of the corporate, identified that the rental market has entered a hyper-inflationary regime distinct from the overall economic system, including, “whereas headline inflation decelerated to 14.45 % as of November 2025, our major knowledge reveals a Landlord Inflation Hole the place common rents in key nodes surged by 105.6 %, fully detaching from the official inflation baseline.”
All these have piled strain on the varied market nodes, however, based on Oloyede, the strain is most seen within the tech hub of Yaba, the place studio rents skyrocketed by 400 % from N300,000 in 2020 to N1.5 million in 2025. Equally, Surulere recorded a pointy development as one-bedroom rents appreciated by 300 % to hit N1.6 million.
The report notes that probably the most aggressive development within the gross sales market was recorded within the Lekki Section 1 hall the place the worth of a two-bedroom residence surged 251 %, climbing from N70.5 million in 2020 to N247.5 million naira in 2025.
In the meantime, Eko Atlantic Metropolis continues to command the best absolute values with one-bedroom residences buying and selling at N400 million per unit.
Wanting forward, Lagos’s property dynamics are being reshaped by main infrastructure initiatives. The Lekki Deep Sea Port, anticipated to contribute $360 billion to the economic system, and the $3-billion Inexperienced Line Rail venture are shifting the main target towards the coastal hall, suggesting continued upward momentum in property values.
