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The private sector remains the major supplier of housing in Nigeria as with some other developing countries. However, productivity in Nigeria is hampered by many factors, including high cost of building materials, difficulty in obtaining title to land, a weak mortgage financing sector, and delay in obtaining building permit. Therefore, the objectives of the research were to (1) Ascertain Private Developers’ Perceived Challenges Regarding Private Housing Production (2) Ascertain Bottlenecks to Private Residential Estate Housing Delivery. This study was undertaken as a cross-sectional survey of all individuals or corporate firms who have supplied at least 4 building units and more constructed between 1978 and 2014 in Greater Port Harcourt City (GPHC). The research design used was the “passive-observational” method. The number of questionnaires administered to estate developers was 76. The study relied on two sources of information primary and secondary. Primary sources comprised (a) a largely pre-coded questionnaire, administered faceto-face by trained interviewers, (b) Individual Depth Interviews (IDIs) of key informants, (c) direct observation, (c) measurement, and (d) photography. Secondary sources included: (a) unpublished and published material in past theses, books, journals, maps, etc; and (b) the Internet. Data analysis utilised mainly univariate and multivariate statistical analytical techniques. Analysis was carried out with the aid of the microcomputer – adapted Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 16. The results showed that 1,761 housing units were built by the private sector and this was mostly in Obio/Akpor LGA (80%). Housing types were single-family bungalow (28.3%), multi-family block of flats (26.8%), single-family storey building (18.8%), “wagon” rooming house (4.3%) and “courtyard” rooming house (1.8%). Four predictor variables -Access to Land, Mortgage Financing, Building Permit, and Title to Land could explain 85% of the variation in the dependent variable, Private Housing Productivity, with Title to Land being the most important. The study concluded, among others, that (a) the pace of private sector housing development in Greater Port Harcourt City was far short of what is needed to satisfy demand, given a population of the order of 2,000,000 growing at 5.8% per annum. Recommendations of the study include (a) that the Land Use Act of 1978 should be abrogated.

Private Developers’ Perceived Challenges Regarding Private Estate Housing Production in Greater Port Harcourt: Nigeria