Non-Corporate Client Patronage of Estate Surveyors and Valuers Services in Nigeria: Bauchi Metropolis View Point

Abstract

Estate surveyors and valuers profession plays a vital role in ascertaining actual value of properties. It has come to the knowledge of the researchers that Surveyors’ were experiencing low patronage. The research study make it boldly that the causes of low or lack of estate surveyor and valuers patronage in the study area was due to various reasons, among which the key issue was lack of clients orientation. Professional competence is a prerequisite or prerogative ability of a surveyor to carry out valuation for sales, mortgage, rent or probate and so on. Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) is the recognized institutions empower to induct an estate surveyor and valuer in Nigeria. The surveyors’ are responsible for preparing valuation report in the country. Non corporate clients are the targeted population of the study. Non probability sampling was adopted because of the researcher experienced of the nature and categorized of the respondents. Judgmental sampling was adopted as the sampling techniques of the study. 364 questionnaires were produced and only 297 respondents were able to be met within and during the data collection process. The study revealed that educational background causes lack of patronage of estate surveyors’ services in the study area. The research study concludes that estate surveyors need to persuade their clients by advocating the benefits of their services to the general public. It’s also concludes that proper advertisement of their roles in the property market should be spelt out openly, the study recommended that government should regulates all transactions of land and landed property in the study area. Regulatory body concerns with property market should be put in place to monitor dealings pertaining lands, generality of individuals should be enlighten about to security of patronizing estate surveyors and valuers. Future researches should dwell on the contemporary issues pertaining estate surveyors’ and valuers services in the built environment to focus on other aspect of non corporate clients demand.