How do you buy a house in Lagos Life?
Use the Homes tab in your phone’s Houses app. Buying the home you already rent and buying a different home have separate buttons.
- Open Phone → Houses → Homes.
Check Your homes for your current place, or browse the properties listed below it.
- Choose whether to stay or move.
To buy your current rented home, look for Buy it, no more rent. To buy a different property, open its card and read the full price under Or buy it outright.
- Check the cost and any blocked-button message.
A short price such as ₦15m in the list is rounded. Use the full amount in the detail view and keep money for food and other expenses.
- Use the purchase button only when you are ready.
For a different property, this is Buy & move in. Buying an unoccupied property invokes the game’s move-in logic; it is not just a reservation.
Before tapping: the current home’s Buy it button calls the purchase directly in the public client. Do not rely on a second confirmation screen. Official purchase logic [source]
What is the difference between renting and buying?
Rent it pays for access to a rented home. Buy & move in buys the home outright and removes rent on that property. The cheaper upfront option is not ownership.
Mini-flat · Lekki Phase 1
- Base rent per game week
- ₦17,000
- Two weeks’ rent upfront
- ₦34,000
- Agent & agreement
- ₦17,000
- Total to rent and move in
- ₦51,000
- Buy outright instead
- ₦910,000
These are two alternatives: the detail screen offers renting for ₦51,000 or buying for ₦910,000. Do not add both together as a required purchase cost.
The purchase panel shows a sell-back value of ₦728,000 (80%). It also compares the purchase price with about 54 weeks of rent. That is a rent-cost comparison, not rental income or guaranteed profit.
All amounts are in-game naira. They cannot be withdrawn as real money. Official Terms, section 5 ↗
When is rent charged?
The housing interface says rent is charged on Saturday in game time. The public move-in logic records a 14-game-day prepaid period when renting a new home. Do not assume a full extra rent bill is due immediately after paying the two-week advance.
The account’s price multiplier can affect move-in costs. Use your own fee breakdown for the amount you will pay. Buying removes rent on that home; it does not remove your other game expenses or rent on other rented homes.
How much do houses cost in Lagos Life?
The Lagos Homes list checked on October 10, 2026 included the properties below. Compare the weekly commitment with the upfront cost before choosing an upgrade.
| Home & area | Base rent / game week | Rent move-in total* | Buy outright |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-me-I-face-youMushin · 6×6 | ₦2,400 | ₦7,200 | ₦113,000 |
| Self-containYaba · 7×7 | ₦6,000 | ₦18,000† | ₦312,000‡ |
| Mini-flatLekki Phase 1 · 10×10 | ₦17,000 | ₦51,000 | ₦910,000 |
| Terrace duplexIkate, Lekki · 11×11 | ₦45,000 | ₦135,000 | ₦2,470,000 |
| Family duplexMagodo GRA · 13×13 | ₦110,000 | ₦330,000 | ₦6,067,000 |
| DuplexIkoyi · 12×12 | ₦250,000 | ₦750,000 | ₦14,733,000 |
| MansionBanana Island · 14×14 | ₦1,500,000 | ₦4,500,000 | ₦91,000,000 |
| Hall of ResidenceUNILAG, Akoka · 6×6 · students only | ₦1,200 | ₦3,600 | No buyout shown |
* Move-in totals were shown for the checked account; they are not an additional fee on top of the buyout. Account price modifiers may change them. † Yaba move-in cost is calculated from the current public formula, because it was already the account’s home. ‡ Yaba’s card shows ₦312k; the full price is confirmed by the public price formula. Other buyout prices were read from the property details.
These are the checked Lagos properties, not a complete list of every city or every account’s available homes. No single house is best for everyone: a larger home costs more to rent, and a buyout ties up more of your game balance. Use the Compare Jobs tool to compare base wages, and the money guide to plan income and expenses.
How do you move house without losing your furniture?
For a rented upgrade, open its card under Phone → Houses → Homes, review the fees and choose Rent it. The checked same-city move logic takes your furniture with you and puts items that do not fit into storage.
- Finish any active shift or journey and clear outstanding rent before moving.
- Check the new home’s size and the full move-in total.
- Choose Rent it for a tenancy, or Buy & move in for ownership.
- After moving, check the room and Buy → Storage for furniture that could not be placed.
Storage items remain yours; the public client says they can be placed from storage for free. Moving into a smaller room does not mean every item will fit on the floor.
Homes in another city use a separate home slot in the public logic. Do not assume that adding an out-of-city home moves all your Lagos furniture there or cancels your existing rent. Cross-city availability was not tested in this check.
Why can’t you buy or move into a house?
Read the message on the disabled button first. The official client checks balance, work, travel, rent debts and property-specific eligibility; a blocked button is not automatically a bug.
- Need ₦…
- Your balance is below the required purchase or move-in amount. A weekly rent figure alone is not enough to move in.
- Finish your shift first / Wait till you arrive
- Complete your current work or journey before trying again.
- Clear the rent you owe
- Settle the applicable outstanding rent. The buyout checks debt on the rented home you are buying; moving can also check debts across your homes.
- For UNILAG students only
- Enrol at the Senate Building first. The checked hostel was unavailable to this account and had no buyout option. The public eligibility rules also exclude graduates.
- It’s yours already / You’re building one
- You cannot buy another copy of the same owned home or a home currently being built. The public ownership limit is 20, counting an active build.
These checks were verified in the interface or public client, not by deliberately triggering debt or completing transactions. If the interface reports a different problem, use official support; this Wiki cannot change your balance or property record.
Can you buy a house and rent it out to other players?
Buying a home for yourself is available in the checked Homes interface. Invest and Rent both showed Opening soon in the same account on October 10, 2026.
Do not buy a self-use home expecting it to generate rent automatically. The public client contains separate rental-market code, but code alone does not prove that those features are available to your account.
This guide therefore does not promise tenant income, occupancy, rental yields or a working player-to-player rental market. Check the current tabs in your own game.
Can you sell a home you own?
The buyout details show an 80% sell-back value, and the public client includes a sell action. Selling the home you occupy changes it back to a tenancy with rent resuming according to the game’s billing rules. We did not buy or sell a property to test the completed transaction.
Sources
Checked October 10, 2026 against a logged-in official game session and the official public client. Screenshots show real housing screens with account details cropped out. We inspected menus and fees without buying, renting, moving or selling; availability in other accounts may differ.
- Official Lagos Life game ↗
Phone → Houses → Homes, property details, and the Invest / Rent tabs.
- Official public housing interface and purchase client ↗
Purchase buttons, blocked-action messages, rent breakdown and buyout details. This versioned asset may change.
- Official public housing and move logic ↗
Home prices, account cost multipliers, ownership, prepayment, furniture storage and sell-back logic.
- Official public home definitions ↗
Base rents, room sizes and UNILAG hostel eligibility.
- Official Terms of Use ↗
Sections 5, 7 and 8: game currency has no cash redemption value, and the simulated economy can change.