Nigeria Real Estate Data Project
# 🏡 Nigeria Real Estate Intelligence Platform
> A data-driven platform providing clean, localized insights into Nigerian real estate markets using scraped listings, analytics, and interactive dashboards.
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## 📌 Overview
Real estate decisions in Nigeria are often driven by fragmented listings, agent opinions, and anecdotal information. There is limited access to **centralized, data-backed insights** on pricing trends, land values, and market movement across cities.
This project addresses that gap by building a **Nigeria Real Estate Intelligence Platform** that aggregates property listings, cleans and normalizes the data, and delivers actionable insights through an interactive dashboard and API-ready architecture.
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## 🎯 Objective
The primary goals of this project were to:
- Aggregate property listings across major Nigerian cities
- Clean and normalize inconsistent real estate data
- Separate fundamentally different asset types (buildings vs land)
- Provide reliable pricing benchmarks and market trends
- Deliver insights via a public dashboard designed for decision-making
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## 📊 Data Collection
- Scraped **4,000+ property listings**
- Sources included major Nigerian property platforms
- Property types covered:
- Houses
- Apartments
- Duplexes
- Land
- Key attributes extracted:
- Price
- Location
- City
- Bedrooms
- Property category
- Listing dates
The focus was on **broad city coverage**, enabling cross-market comparison rather than a single-location snapshot.
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## đź§ą Data Cleaning & Structuring
Real estate data is inherently noisy. Several critical cleaning and modeling decisions were made:
- Removed rentals, shortlets, and lease listings
- Converted all prices into numeric NGN values
- Converted USD-denominated prices using current exchange rates
- Separated **land** from **buildings** to avoid analytical distortion
- Standardized city and location names
- Engineered analytical features:
- `price_per_bedroom`
- `month_posted`
- normalized pr …