Veritasi Homes and Properties, a leading real estate and property development company in Nigeria, has signed a learning partnership with Lagos Business School (LBS), the graduate business school of Pan-Atlantic University. The partnership will kickstart with a co-organization of the 2022 Realtors’ Conference, a three-day program starting from Tuesday 22 February to Thursday 24 February 2022. The first two days will be held at Four Points Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, while the event’s last day will be at Lagos Business School, Lekki-Epe Expressway Ajah, Lagos.

Head, Marketing and communications, Veritasi Homes and Properties, Tobi Yusuff stated that the partnership and conference were organized to help realtors flourish in the real estate industry. “This is a first of its kind, and through this partnership, we are looking at educating realtors on real estate focused modules and other industry best practices. The conference we are hosting as a follow-up to this partnership will have lecturers and other experts in the industry share their knowledge and experience with participants. It will be a free event, and we are working with the Lagos Business School to ensure that every selected participant gets maximum value from this conference. We believe realtors should be well trained and have the requisite knowledge to help them become more efficient in their trade. I am very optimistic that this would greatly help them.”

The Director, Executive Education, Lagos Business School, Mr Victor Banjo, shared the purpose for signing the partnership, “The real estate sector has in no small way contributed to this nation’s economic growth, and we thought of better equipping the realtors who happen to be major role players in the industry. Our collaboration with Veritasi Homes is sure to yield the desired results.”

Also present at the signing was Dr Nkemdilim Iheanachor, Senior Lecturer, Strategy & International Business at LBS shared some of the learning highlights of the conference, such as relationship marketing, brand building and development, negotiation skills, managing commercial real estate, which is all designed to enhance the capabilities of the participants.

After the announcement, a realtor, Ms Lulu, expressed her anticipation towards the event, “I am not surprised that Veritasi Homes is organizing such an important and beneficial program. They always have something valuable to offer us, realtors, in terms of training, development, mentorship, coaching and so on. I am certain this conference will be very enlightening and interesting. I look forward to learning from experts in the industry and also connecting and networking with other attendees at the event.”