The Relationship Between Road Infrastructure Budgetary Expenditures and Commercial Property Investment Returns. Case Study of Fadikpe Area Minna, Nigeria

Yakubu Suleiman (), Adeyemi Ajayi (), Sule Abass () and Ogunbajo Rukaiyyat ()
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Yakubu Suleiman: Department of Estate Management, Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria
Adeyemi Ajayi: Department of Estate Management and Valuation, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
Sule Abass: Department of Estate Management and Valuation, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
Ogunbajo Rukaiyyat: Department of Estate Management and Valuation, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 1, 187-196

Abstract: The paper examines the relationship existing between commercial property investment returns and public capital investment (budgetary expenditures) on road infrastructure in Fadikpe area, Minna (Nigeria) with the aim of determining the degree of impact of public capital investment on commercial property investment returns. The paper addresses a pertinent policy and practice question on the impact of government’s budgetary expenditures on real estate sector of the economy. Government increasingly faces funding challenges in providing new infrastructure or improvement of existing ones, thus, keen to know the areas of greater impact of its expenditures and the extent to which the benefits from the impact may go in augmenting or providing funds (through tax) for new road infrastructure provision or repair of existing ones. The research uses the before-and-after case method to identify an increase in property values (rental and sales) as measured by the trend of property investment returns before-and-after budgetary expenditures. The results show that commercial property investment returns in the area increased after budgetary expenditure (road construction) took place. The results form the basis upon which the government should consider more budgetary allocations and expenditures related to road transportation infrastructure in its budgetary allocation decisions. The results also quantify the proposed alternative source of funding (property tax) that can be harnessed via capturing the increase in property investment returns.

Keywords: budgetary expenditures; commercial property; investment returns; road infrastructure; relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/bjreecm-2020-0013

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