For buyers abroad · The Diaspora Desk
Buying property in Nigeria from thousands of miles away is where good money is lost to forged titles and vanished developers. The Diaspora Desk is your agency on the ground: the best practice to follow, the questions to ask, and a team that sources, verifies and handles the purchase for you end to end, relocation and expat placement included.
Best practice
Free, no sign-up needed. These are the habits that separate a safe purchase from a costly one. Read them, share them, and hold any seller to them.
Ask for the C of O or deed of assignment, the governor's consent, and a current survey. Have a land-registry search done for competing claims. If the paper is not clean, nothing else matters.
A price too good to be true. Pressure to pay quickly. Vague answers on ownership. Family land or omonile disputes. One plot sold to several buyers. Developers who take deposits and go quiet.
A TRE-Verified developer has cleared an independent six-pillar standard, and the mark is dated and revocable. Ask a developer whether they hold it before you commit.
Never wire a deposit on trust alone. Use staged payments tied to real milestones, and instruct your own independent lawyer. TRE verifies and advises, and never holds or handles your funds.
Have the property independently inspected, with photos and video, before you commit. Do not rely on the seller's own images, and do not skip this because you are far away.
Every receipt, agreement and approval, dated and kept. It is your protection if anything is ever disputed, and it is the first thing a good lawyer will ask you for.
The service
If you would rather not do it alone, open a Diaspora Desk case and a case manager sources and verifies property for you, remotely, from your brief to a safe purchase.
Your budget, area, and what you are looking for, from wherever you are.
We find options and run them against the standard, so you only see sound ones.
Vetted lawyers and surveyors, an independent inspection, the title searched.
We guide you through a safe purchase, end to end. You keep control of your money.
TRE is the agency built on its own verification standard. We verify and advise, coordinate your own lawyers and surveyors, and we never hold or handle your funds, for any transaction. You pay the provider directly, through your own bank and your own solicitor.
Every property in the verified search shows what has been checked before you enquire. Begin there, not in a stranger's WhatsApp.
Brief the Desk
If your home is not on the platform yet, file the brief: area, budget, bedrooms, timeline. The Desk sources against it, verifies what it finds, and comes back only with homes we can stand behind.
Ask the Desk
Ask us anything about buying safely from abroad, and we will come back to you. Or book a video consultation and we will walk through your situation together.