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Tariq’s distinction is important. If your data only shows listing status, call the measure days to removal or status change—not days to completed sale. You can still compare cohorts, but the label should not imply a transaction milestone the data cannot confirm.

A simple cohort table could clarify this. Take properties first listed during the same period, then record original ask, any price-cut date, current status and the point at which a buyer was found where that can be verified. Keep withdrawals visible. Otherwise removing an unsold home can look...

Build a simple comparison grid: completed price or asking price, sale/listing date, measured area and basis, condition, precise location, tenure, service charge, parking and outdoor space. Calculate unit rates, then make one adjustment at a time and avoid counting dated common areas both as...

Do you have a minimum floor area? Four bedrooms can mean four genuinely usable rooms or three reasonable rooms plus a very small fourth. I’d ask respondents for room dimensions or a floor plan, not only the bedroom count.

The first estimate now covers the obvious purchase items. That has raised a harder question: what might sit outside it for a detached Lagos home priced near NGN 1,217,000,000? I want to separate acquisition expenses, including transfer-related, legal and registration costs, from annual property...