Many FCT residents are often worried of where to get affordable houses to rent.
This is due to high cost of house rents in most parts of the city. Residents are usually faced with the questions: where and how to get an affordable house to rent?
Getting an affordable apartment to rent in Abuja is however possible if a visit is made to the suburbs.
In this write up, Africanhousingnews.com highlights some places where house rents are fairly low in the FCT.
KUBWA
Kubwa is a relatively well planned town that has become home mainly for civil servants, businessmen, and women and artisans. It is a densely residential district in Bwari Area Council.
It is highly dominated by middle-class people. One of the unique features of living in Kubwa is that it has a close proximity to the Abuja city centre. A 30 minutes’ drive or so will get to the city centre. It has apartments that are relatively affordable for both low and middle income earners.
KARU URBAN AREA
Karu urban area shares boundary between Nasarawa and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Karu is one of the fastest growing areas of the FCT. Grouped together under Karu urban area includes towns like Kurunduma, New Nyanya, Mararaba, New Karu, Ado, Orozo, Masaka and One Man Village.
Getting a flat is Karu is relatively affordable compared to other areas in Abuja. Transportation to other parts of the city is affordable to the average class resident, but they will need to cope with the traffic gridlock, poor access roads and other substandard infrastructural provisions.
LUGBE
Lugbe is one of the popular suburban settlements in Abuja. It is in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). It is largely residential and densely populated. Lugbe is about 17 minutes’ drive from the Central Business District of Abuja and 13 minutes’ drive to the Abuja Airport.
Lugbe’s proximity to the city centre and also to the Abuja airport has brought it into the limelight and attracted significant development to the area in terms of estates springing up rapidly. Rents are relatively affordable, especially in the little villages in Lugbe. The suburb is however bedevilled with poor social amenities. The roads in most parts are in terrible conditions.
KUJE
Kuje, located along the Abuja-Lokoja road is another suburb where renting an affordable apartment is possible. Kuje is seeing a rapid expansion in house building because of its proximity to Abuja and because of the removal of informal settlements along the airport road. Renting an apartment in Kuje will save a lot of money for low or average income earners.
Bwari/Dutse
This is another densely populated suburb in the FCT. Like the previous places mentioned, it is dominated by the low and middle income earners who can easily find an affordable home to rent.
Gwagwalada
Gwagwalada is an Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria.
It has become home to civil servants and other workers, especially those working at the airport, the Civil Defence Headquarters, the Nigerian Immigration Office among others. Gwagwalada presents a means of affordable rent in Abuja for those who cannot afford the city centre.
Lokogoma
For a few years, several housing units started springing up in Logokoma, majority of them not properly built. But they were affordable to the civil servants and those in the low income earning cadre of the society. The town however is in need of heavy government presence in terms of provision of infrastructures that will make Logokoma enviable.
MPAPE
Mpape is a heavily populated suburb in Abuja. It shares close proximity to highbrow areas like Maitama, Asokoro and Aso Drive. The rent here is affordable, which is why it keeps attracting renters every time. However, despite its closeness to Maitama, Mpape cannot boast of any good infrastructure.
SULEJA
Suleja, located in Niger state is considered by many to be a part of the FCT. It is home to civil servants and other business men who either had their properties demolished in Abuja city centre several years ago or who finds the rent in Abuja too expensive.
DEI DEI/ZUBA
Dei Dei and Zuba are under Bwari Area Council of the FCT. They fall into a category of satellite towns that houses numerous workers in Abuja city centre but with poor infrastructural facilities. The rents and even land is very cheap in this area and it keeps attracting low and middle income earners on a daily basis.
KARIMO/IDU
Karimo, famous for its Tuesday market is another suburb that houses a huge number of people. Karimo represents an unplanned town with houses that are affordable for rent. Like the other satellite towns, it is relatively close to the city centre.
