Buy your home, or keep renting?
Choose a home and holding period to compare renting with buying.
Two ways to live there
Buying comes out ₦311,000 ahead after 26 weeks.
Wealth after your stay
Keep renting
Net position
₦417,000
Buy it out
Net position
₦728,000
Estimated net position, assuming home resale at 80%. Excludes furniture.
Your home All rents, buy prices and move-in fees are reads from the Houses app across its Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja tabs. The UNILAG student hall is rent-only — the game never sells it — so it is not listed here.
₦17,000/week · buy ₦910,000 · move-in ₦51,000
How long you'll stay
Results show your last valid settings while you edit. Use 1–520 whole weeks and 0–10% weekly yield in 0.1 steps. Empty fields restore their previous value when you leave them; other invalid values are rounded to the allowed range.
What else your cash earns 0 %/week
Results show your last valid settings while you edit. Use 1–520 whole weeks and 0–10% weekly yield in 0.1 steps. Empty fields restore their previous value when you leave them; other invalid values are rounded to the allowed range.
Full costs and break-even
Every rent, buy price and move-in fee is a Houses app read; the 80% resell rate is community-verified. The model is a simplification: one home, no furniture costs, and you resell at the end. The game's Buy button has no confirmation step — read before you tap.
Keep renting
Buy it out
At 0% a week, buying pulls ahead from week 8 onward.
Rents, buy prices and the 3× move-in fee come straight from the Houses app; the 80% resell rate is community-verified. If your screen shows different numbers, the game is right.