Real estate agency has been relegated in academic curriculum of Estate Management Programme in Nigeria. This partly accountsudfor few research efforts in the field compared to what is obtainable in the UK, US and Asia. This research therefore aims atudexamining the practice of real estate agency amongst the professionals’ viz-a-viz curriculum of study obtained while they wereudundergoing trainning. 159 Estate Surveying firms and 91 Property Development Companies in Lagos were studied. RelativeudImportance Index and Chi-Square test set at the 0.05 level of significance were adopted for the analysis. It was found thatudmultiple agency was the most practiced which was also fraught with inefficiencies. The study thereby advocated a modificationudof agency practice through review of curriculum and commitment of both agents and principals in order to eradicate theudidentified inefficiencies. It also called for focus on the neglected real estate agency research among Nigerian researchers
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