Property transactions in Nigeria
Check the property before you pay for it.
SafeBuyRealties is one platform for the parts of a property transaction that are hardest to do alone: confirming a title, inspecting the land, holding the money while both sides do what they promised, and proving afterwards that the document you are holding is real.
SafeBuyRealties
Verified listings, secure transactions, and professional validation for confident real estate buying and selling.
The whole model is built against the four things that go wrong in an informal deal:
Title fraudCircumventionIncomplete documentationPayment disputesWhat we do
Six things a buyer would otherwise have to arrange separately
Every item below is something the platform does today. Nothing on this page describes a feature that is still being built.
Several of these are switched on per deployment rather than on by default. That is a deliberate choice and not a gap: turning one on changes the rule for everybody already mid-transaction, so it happens on a date somebody picks. Where one is off, the platform does not offer it at all, rather than showing you a button that fails.
Verified listings
Properties are submitted by owners and registered agents, reviewed before they go live, and shown to buyers only once that review is complete.
Independent due diligence
Order a title search, survey validation, environmental review, physical inspection or security assessment on any property, whether it is one of ours or one you found elsewhere. It comes back as a written report with a verdict on it.
Escrow-ready payments
Purchase funds are held against the transaction rather than passed straight to the seller, and released against the transaction's own state.
Power of Attorney with public verification
A Power of Attorney executed on the platform carries a QR code. Anyone holding the document can scan it and check the instrument against the register, with no account and no sign-in.
Identity verification
Accounts submit identity documents for review, and the actions that move money or transfer title are the ones that ask for it.
Verified professionals
Lawyers, surveyors, valuers, architects, engineers, builders and quantity surveyors work cases on the platform, with their credentials checked before they are assigned any.
Due diligence coverage
Structured around Schedules A to D
A request can take a single schedule or the full bundle. These are the same four schedules the operations team works to inside the platform, not a marketing restatement of them.
Schedule A
Legal due diligence
Ownership, title history, encumbrances, and legal document review.
Schedule B
Environmental review
Flooding, drainage, land-use, and neighbourhood environmental signals.
Schedule C
Physical inspection
On-site checks for boundaries, structures, access, and visible condition.
Schedule D
Security assessment
Neighbourhood safety, access routes, and occupancy-related risk context.
How a due diligence request runs
Four steps, on or off the platform
You do not have to be buying through SafeBuyRealties to use this. A property you found somewhere else can be assessed by entering its address.
Start a due diligence request- 1Choose a live SafeBuyRealties listing or enter an off-platform property address.
- 2Select individual schedules or the full due diligence bundle.
- 3Pay to open the case and receive your service ID and case reference.
- 4Our staff progress the case to complete and attach the final report.
If you have a property to sell
What listing here is actually for
Listing is not advertising a plot. The company's listing proposal puts it as plugging into a verification-first process that connects a property with serious buyers while taking risk out of the transaction for every party in it, including you.
The doubt is dealt with before the buyer arrives
A listing is reviewed before it is shown to anyone. The questions a buyer would otherwise open with, who owns this, what does the title say, where are the papers, have been asked already. Section 2 of the listing proposal calls this increased buyer confidence, and it is the whole reason the review sits before the listing rather than after the offer.
A dedicated channel rather than a classified ad
Your property sits in a place where verification is the default and every listing around yours went through the same review. The proposal's phrase for it is a trusted environment, not just another generic listing site.
Professionals who were checked before they were assigned
Lawyers, surveyors, valuers, architects, engineers, builders and quantity surveyors work cases here, and their credentials are reviewed before any case reaches them. A seller who needs one of them for a transaction does not have to go and find them.
A record that survives the transaction
Documents are collected and read before a listing goes live, every later read of one is written to an audit trail, and the trail keeps the refusals as well as the approvals. If something is disputed afterwards, there is a record to settle it against rather than two recollections.
Due diligence as the standard, not the exception
A transaction does not move past the conditions set for it, and the checks are not something a party opts into once they are already nervous. The proposal calls this a structured sales ecosystem, where due diligence, legal compliance and transparency are standard rather than optional.
Before a listing appears
Owner or agent, and the papers each one owes
A seller comes to a property in one of two capacities: they own it, or the owner appointed them. The platform records which, once, on the seller rather than on each listing, and a seller holds one capacity at a time.
The two document sets are then checked as sets and cannot be mixed. An owner who uploads a power of attorney is refused, and so is an agent who uploads none. The check runs on the server, not in the upload form, because a check the seller can edit is not a check. It is switched on per deployment, for the reason above.
As the property owner
You are selling something you own. You prove who you are, and nothing about anybody else.
- One identification document, still in date on the day the file is decided: NIN slip, international passport, driver's licence or voter's card.
That is the whole of the owner's personal file, and the shortness is deliberate. If somebody else's authority is what puts you in the sale, you are not selling as the owner, and the file has to say so before anything else happens.
As a registered agent
You are acting for the owner. You prove who you are, who they are, and what they have authorised you to do.
- Your own identification, from the same list, still in date.
- A power of attorney from the owner, authorising you to list and negotiate the property.
- The identification of the owner who signed that power of attorney.
- Your registration certificate from LASERA, the Lagos State Estate Agency Regulatory Authority.
The LASERA certificate is the one item no reviewer can pass a file without. There is no waiver field on the record, because a waiver that can be recorded is a waiver that gets used.
And the property itself, either way
Eight documents, the same in both capacities. A title document counts as three, because one page of it proves very little on its own.
- A survey plan.
- The front page of the title document, whether that is a Certificate of Occupancy, a registered conveyance or the equivalent.
- Its address page.
- Its signature page.
- A photograph of the front of the building.
- A photograph of the rear.
- A photograph of a side elevation.
- A photograph of the interior.
An aerial photograph is accepted where somebody can take one, and it never holds a listing up. A required document nobody can obtain is a queue rather than a control.
The photographs to have ready
Four exterior photographs, showing the property from every principal elevation: front, rear and both sides.
Ten interior photographs, covering the living areas, the bedrooms, the kitchen, the bathrooms and anything notable.
Four of those are the ones a reviewer looks for before the listing can go live: front, rear, a side elevation and an interior. The rest are what makes the listing worth reading once it is up.
What we check on a LASERA certificate
We collect the agent's LASERA registration certificate and an officer reads it: the registration number, the name on it, and the expiry date. What they concluded is written down with their name against it, and a lapsed certificate fails the file on the day it lapses. We do not query the LASERA register itself, so what we hold is the certificate the agent produced and a named officer's reading of it. That is a real check and it is worth having, and it is not the same thing as the register confirming the agent to us.
And on a NIN
A National Identification Number is collected on the identity file and held encrypted, never as plain digits in the database. It is not confirmed against NIMC. That connection is built and switched off until the partner agreement is signed, so a number given today is recorded and read by a person, and no request about it leaves this platform.
Who can see a document you upload
Title documents and survey plans are kept solely for internal verification and due diligence. They are not displayed and not downloadable on the public site, and they do not sit at a web address somebody could guess. Every request for one goes through a check on who is asking, on every read, and the read is written to the audit trail whether it was allowed or refused.
Survey plans and title pages
The seller, whoever uploaded the file, the officers reviewing it, a professional assigned to work the property, and a buyer already in a transaction on that listing. Nobody else, signed in or not.
Powers of attorney, LASERA certificates, identification
The seller and the officers reviewing them. Not a buyer partway through a purchase, and not an assigned surveyor or lawyer. These are facts about a person rather than about a property, so they do not travel with the listing.
Listing photographs
Public once the listing is live, which is what a listing page is for. Photographs on a listing that has not gone live are not public, and never were.
The agreement
What you agree to when you list
These are terms of an agreement rather than switches in software, and they are on this page so that a seller reads them before signing rather than at completion. They come from the company's own Property Listing Partnership Proposal, and the agreement you are given is the document that governs.
The Platform does not guarantee authenticity of documents beyond reasonable verification steps; seller representations remain those of the vendor.
- A success fee on an introduced sale
- A success fee is payable to the company on any lead it introduced that results in a completed sale, on transfer of title or payment of the price, whichever happens first. This page prints no rate. The one that applies to you is the one written into the agreement you sign.
- No going around the platform
- The listing party undertakes not to bypass the platform and deal directly with a buyer it introduced in order to avoid the fee. The proposal treats that as a material breach, which makes the full fee immediately due along with any other remedy available under Nigerian law.
- A Power of Attorney for each transaction
- Every supervised transaction has its own Power of Attorney, executed in favour of the company or its nominated representative, so that due diligence and the completion formalities can be carried out lawfully. The proposal makes executing it a condition of completing. One executed on the platform carries a QR code, and the other side of the transaction can check it without an account.
- Twelve months of no soliciting
- While the property is listed, and for twelve months after, the listing party does not approach or induce a buyer the company introduced to transact off the platform, and does not solicit its staff, contractors or other clients for a competing arrangement.
- Signed electronically, and that counts
- Electronic communications and digitally executed documents satisfy the legal writing requirements of Nigerian law, so there is no separate paper ritual at the end of a transaction that was conducted online.
- Nigerian law, and where a dispute goes
- The governing law is that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and a dispute goes to the Lagos State Multi-Door Courthouse and the Nigerian courts.
- A listing can be declined, or taken down
- The company reserves the right to decline or remove a listing that fails verification or breaches these terms. In the platform a rejection is a recorded state on the listing rather than a quiet disappearance, and a rejection on grounds of illegality is permanent: nothing moves out of it except an audited manual review by a named role.
Getting listed
Four steps, in this order
The order matters. Documents first, because the review cannot start on a file that is still arriving, and every step after it is somebody reading what you sent.
- 1Gather the documents: your identification, the title pages, the survey plan and the photographs.
- 2Write to property@safebuyrealtiesltd.com, or start the listing in the platform and upload as you go.
- 3Complete the Power of Attorney questionnaire and the identity forms.
- 4Wait for the review. The company's listing proposal puts approval at 24 to 72 hours once a submission is complete, and complete is the word doing the work in that sentence: a file with a page missing waits for the page.
Where we operate
A due diligence case involves people physically visiting a site, so the states covered are a real constraint rather than a formality.
To be confirmed. Which states or cities the company currently operates in
What it costs
Prices are not listed on this page on purpose. The service catalogue lives in the platform, where the figures are the ones actually charged and are kept current; a copy on a marketing page would be a second version of the truth, and it would be the stale one. A seller's success fee is not a catalogue price at all: it is agreed in the listing agreement and set out there.
See current pricing in the platformWho it is for
Anyone checking a property
Order due diligence on a property whether or not it is listed here, and whether or not you have an account. Legal, environmental, physical and security checks, coordinated by us, ending in a plain verdict on whether to proceed.
Buyers
Browse reviewed listings, order due diligence before you commit, and pay into escrow rather than into a stranger's account.
Property owners and registered agents
List a property, submit it for review, and take payment through a transaction that both sides can see the state of.
Professional and allied services
Lawyers, surveyors, valuers and the other verified professions take assigned cases and file their findings against them.
Holding a signed Power of Attorney?
Scan the QR code on the document, or check it here. No account, no sign-in, and anyone can do it, including the person on the other side of the transaction.
See the platform for yourself
Browse what is listed, look at how a due diligence case is put together, and decide from there.
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