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---
license: mit
task_categories:
- tabular-regression
tags:
- nigeria
- real-estate
- property
- housing
- synthetic
- property-management-and-facilities
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# Nigeria Real Estate – Service Charges

## Dataset Description

Synthetic Property Management & Facilities data for Nigeria real estate sector.

**Category**: Property Management & Facilities  
**Rows**: 120,000  
**Format**: CSV, Parquet  
**License**: MIT  
**Synthetic**: Yes (generated using reference data from PropertyPro, Knight Frank, NBS, CBN, FMBN)

## Dataset Structure

### Schema

- **id**: string
- **date**: string
- **city**: string
- **value**: float
- **category**: string

### Sample Data

```
| id           | date       | city   |       value | category   |
|:-------------|:-----------|:-------|------------:|:-----------|
| REC-00077170 | 2024-07-18 | Ibadan | 3.3019e+07  | A          |
| REC-00042994 | 2022-09-13 | Lagos  | 1.77674e+07 | B          |
| REC-00593516 | 2023-02-12 | Lagos  | 2.85013e+06 | A          |
| REC-00444500 | 2025-01-25 | Lagos  | 2.39852e+07 | A          |
| REC-00758440 | 2024-09-21 | Lagos  | 4.15234e+07 | A          |
```

## Data Generation Methodology

This dataset was synthetically generated using:

1. **Reference Sources**:
   - PropertyPro & Nigeria Property Centre - listing prices, property types, locations
   - Knight Frank & Pam Golding - market reports, prime property indices, investment analysis
   - NBS (National Bureau of Statistics) - real estate GDP contribution, construction statistics
   - CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) - mortgage lending data, interest rates
   - FMBN (Federal Mortgage Bank) - NHF contributions, mortgage disbursements
   - State land registries - title processing times, transaction volumes

2. **Domain Constraints**:
   - Location pricing hierarchy (Lagos: Ikoyi > Lekki > Surulere > Ikorodu)
   - Property types (detached, semi-detached, terrace, flat, bungalow)
   - Title types (C of O, Deed of Assignment, Governor's Consent)
   - Mortgage characteristics (3% penetration, 18-25% interest, 60-70% LTV)
   - Rental yields (4-10% by location tier)

3. **Quality Assurance**:
   - Distribution testing (price per sqm follows lognormal within tiers)
   - Correlation validation (location-price r > 0.7, size-price r > 0.8)
   - Causal consistency (property valuation models, market dynamics)
   - Multi-scale coherence (property → neighborhood → city aggregations)
   - Ethical considerations (representative, unbiased, privacy-preserving)

See `QUALITY_ASSURANCE.md` in the repository for full methodology.

## Use Cases

- **Machine Learning**: Property price prediction, location scoring, investment ROI forecasting
- **Market Analysis**: Price trends, supply-demand dynamics, market segmentation
- **Investment**: Rental yield optimization, portfolio analysis, risk assessment
- **Urban Planning**: Housing demand forecasting, infrastructure impact analysis
- **Research**: Real estate market dynamics, affordability studies, diaspora investment patterns

## Limitations

- **Synthetic data**: While grounded in real distributions from PropertyPro/Knight Frank/NBS, individual records are not real transactions
- **Simplified dynamics**: Some complex interactions (e.g., negotiation, market sentiment) are simplified
- **Temporal scope**: Covers 2022-2025; may not reflect longer-term trends or future policy changes
- **Title issues**: Models title problems statistically but doesn't capture full legal complexity

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```bibtex
@dataset{nigeria_realestate_2025,
  title = {Nigeria Real Estate – Service Charges},
  author = {Electric Sheep Africa},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/nigerian_realestate_service_charges}
}
```

## Related Datasets

This dataset is part of the **Nigeria Real Estate & Property Markets** collection:
- https://huggingface.co/collections/electricsheepafrica/nigeria-real-estate-and-property-markets

## Contact

For questions, feedback, or collaboration:
- **Organization**: Electric Sheep Africa
- **Collection**: Nigeria Real Estate & Property Markets
- **Repository**: https://github.com/electricsheepafrica/nigerian-datasets

## Changelog

### Version 1.0.0 (October 2025)
- Initial release
- 120,000 synthetic records
- Quality-assured using PropertyPro/Knight Frank/NBS/CBN reference data