Nigeria Property Centre
Market Trends · July 2026

Property demand trends in Nigeria.

See where Nigerians are searching for homes — by state, locality and property type.

Location
Category
Type
Bedrooms
July 2026 snapshot

Search activity across Nigeria

Searches
4.6M
+1%
States
37
tracked
Localities
873
tracked
Top growth
Rivers
+38%
01
68.5%
02
17.6%
03
5.8%
04
Oyo
4.2%
05
3.9%

Top Localities

View all localities
01
47.5%
02
20.1%
11.7%
04
11.7%
9.1%
01
45.4%
02
38.3%
03
11.1%
5.1%

Property Types

View all types
01
48.5%
25.7%
04
9.3%
What the data says

Three things shaping demand this month

Lekki leads demand

Lekki accounts for 47.5% of the localities searches we tracked in July — more than anywhere else.

How demand splits by category

For Rent (45.4%) and For Sale (38.3%) lead the category mix this July.

Rivers is the breakout

Searches for Rivers are up 38% month on month — the fastest-growing state in our data.

About this report

How we measure demand.

This report is built from every property search run on Nigeria Property Centre during the month. We aggregate the queries by state, locality, category and type — and rank them by share of total searches.