How PetitHaus Works; The Simple Guide To Affordable Homeownership.

How do we make Housing affordable?

Affordable is not just in size or how lowly or humble the building looks, it is simply owning the best quality you can afford. And to ensure that people own and maintain the best homes that matches their lifestyle, we have designed an innovative solution that combines three steps which are facilitated with technology for transparency, flexibility and ease of use.

To make it very simple and very relatable, let’s do a bit of imaginative exploration.

Say a 600sq.m land in Lekki, Lagos costs N60m and there is a possibility for you to buy as little as 10,15 or 20sq.m, meaning that, instead of looking for N60m for the full plot or N30m for the half (as is mostly the case for many land owners), all you need is just N100k x 20sq.m, meaning that with N2m you become a Lekki Landlord.
How sweet!
Well, this scenario works through our Land acquisition and Transfer process.

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Go small, save big, and embark on a unique journey towards owning a home that matches your budget, style, and income.

1. Land Ownership & Acquisition.

To make affordability possible, we have to make LAND accessible, that is, to interested individuals who want to own their own place no matter how small. Also for people who want to upgrade the quality of their lives, to be able to buy small pockets of land. A legal and government-approved model that is enabled and facilitated by Technology using any or many of the following.

1. A streamlined process that helps different people to confidently co-own same piece of land in order to reduce cost of ownership while retaining full ownership rights and privileges.
2. We create an online repository for land owners, either of fresh vacant piece(s) of land or unused part of an existing property who are willing to sell in small pockets to list, sell and transfer ownership of the property. Allowing interested individuals confidently acquire land either physically or virtually, with our ground team available to facilitate seamless ownership and title transfer for a little fee.
3. We partner with owners of large pieces of land with the understanding to hold and sell on their behalf in small portions to willing individuals also facilitating ownership and title for a little fee.
4. We acquire large pieces of land and resell to willing individuals in small pockets facilitating ownership and title documentations.

Back to the hypothetical land.

So let’s be modest and say in Lekki, Lagos, you could own 20sq.m land that is just enough to give you a decent home as above, with N2-5m ($3000 -7500) as appropriate for your income level. And you could take it further by building a decent studio apartment between N3m and N10m (or $4000-$15000) based on your taste and furnishing style using a technology that eliminates sand-filling, eliminates expensive foundation, eliminates or minimizes concrete, allows multi-functionality of your space and offers self-sufficient energy efficiency.

Meaning that between N5m to N15m, you could become a home owner (a Lekki landlord), living your best life.
Yes, it sounds unrealistic, but it works already.
Lagos state Government, through the ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development, allows and encourages co-ownership of land, we're simply making this accessible to everyone by saving you the stress of looking for people who want the same thing as you.
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2. Design and Construction.

Once land is settled, we follow up with SUSTAINABLE DESIGN recommendations & CONSTRUCTION. This is our core strength and the objective of the initiative, we have a team of highly skilled architects, engineers and builders that are trained and experienced in construction with a deep knowledge of the real estate landscape. We implement a painstaking process that ensures optimum value for your budget with a keen focus to eliminating unnecessary costs and wasteful spending.

1. To make your building plan approvable in line with planning regulations.
2. To maximize the use of the acquired land, we help people achieve the best use of their property albeit at the most affordable and cost-effective expense. We work with you to create an optimized living space, ensuring that every element serves a purpose by selecting essential items to achieve  efficiency without compromising on functionality or comfort. We combine principles of sustainability and minimalism to ensure that qualitative living becomes accessible to a wide range of individuals, prioritizing quality over quantity and utilizing cost-effective materials and design strategies, to fit within various budget constraints for different tastes and styles.
3. We manage and oversee the project coordination, we facilitate approval procedures and also get involved in the material specifications and procurement on behalf of the client/customer at zero cost to ensure quality and standard delivery as would be required for the project.
4. We recruit and deploy contractors, artisans and specialist vendors to execute and install all or part of customers' project.
5. To ensure full optimization and total efficiency, we sensitize and educate people, particularly clients and customers on sustainability and how to apply it to achieve a qualitative lifestyle.

We are very flexible with our material selection, which is not limited to wood only (even though wood -in all of its forms, offers so much flexibility). We choose from a catalogue of diverse construction materials such as scrapped vans / trucks, laterite, stone, shipping containers, aluminum, rattan, et.c that does not only fit the budget, but also translate the desire and goals of the home owner.

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3. Education and Awareness.

Unlearn, Learn and Relearn.

We understand that minimal and/or sustainable living transcends simply building the house to an actual lifestyle that thrives on intentionality and discipline, thus we endeavour to educate our clients and customers how to maximize their land, manage their furniture, how to integrate existing items (furniture and household components) into the new space and so on. We ensure to continuous learning and relearning to empower individuals with knowledge to promote sustainable living. Through every interaction, be it inquiries or sales, we take the opportunity to educate and orient people on maximizing their lifestyle to achieve qualitative living. We offer guidance on sustainability practices and demonstrate how it can enhance the overall quality of life.

It is truly Affordable housing for all, by all.

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Now that you understand how this works, feel free to start your journey to home ownership. We can't wait to get you started.

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