Career Opportunities and Job Prospects for Estate Management Graduates in Nigeria

Estate Management is concerned with the valuation, taxation, development and utilization of land and resources, buildings and other structures on land.

The discipline is designed to prepare one for professional practice in land management, land use planning and land development, land reform, land settlement, real estate taxation and rating valuation, aspects of town and country planning, valuation, investment/development schemes and feasibility/viability appraisals.

Estate management covers a number of areas that include property management, surveying, business and finance and the built environment and essentially the subject is primarily concerned with the valuation and management of land and buildings in the public and private sector.

Estate management can also be defined as an art of science of directing and supervising of one’s interest in land or landed property in other to achieve some optimum returns which may not only be financial but political, social statute, prestige and other returns.