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MR. Austine Aikhorin, the Managing Director/Chief Executive, Union Homes
Savings and Loans, has beckoned on intending home owners within and outside
Lagos State, and investors in the housing sector, to show interest in Alfred
Garden Estate, Oregun, Lagos, which the firm is funding its construction.
In his address at a ground breaking ceremony of the estate, which he performed
by unveiling the plaque, he said the project's strong selling points included
the credibility of the promoters, the project's location beside a good road
network for easy access within and outside Lagos State, and the strategic
location in the Lagos Mainland.
The Union Homes boss reassured intending buyers of the attractiveness of the estate. Aikhorin reiterated that Union Homes would both fund the project and provide mortgage facilities to the buyers, to facilitate immediate and secure ownership of the houses.
Earlier, the speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Kuforiji, Hon. Had lauded the initiative of the developers in venturing into the housing project, which extensively is in the public interest and the beautification of Ikeja skyline.
Represented by Mr. Bayo Odulana, the speaker also commended the management of Union Homes for its commitment in ensuring a total success of the scheme. The Managing Director of Nigerian Wood Preservation Industries, the developers of the estate, Mr. Seun Odulana, said that the project's first phase would consist of 20 units of semi-detached four-bedroom houses, 22 units of four-bedroom town houses and 62 units of five-bedroom town houses, all rooms ensuite, and all units with boy's quarters.
Odulana said that in addition to access to good public water supply in the
area, the estate would have its own borehole, and a gravity-fed water supply
from its water tower, which would negate the use of water tanks in all the
houses.
Alfred Garden Estate, reposed on a land mass of 90,000 hectares, would have
a beautiful landscape overlooking the rear of Opebi road, a gas turbine type
stand-by generator to ensure effective power supply to residents, a central
sewage system, a recreation center, and a grade one finishing for all the
houses, the statement added