Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the pandemic affects tenants’ response to their lease obligations. This paper commences with examining the adopted tenant selection criteria during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, this paper statistically tests if there is a relationship between selection criteria and response on whether the pandemic has effects or not. Then, this paper investigates the specific areas of impact on tenants’ ability to adequately keep to lease agreements in the Nigerian rental market. Finally, this paper proceeds to confirm if there is a relationship between selection criteria and the aspects of tenants’ deficiencies in rental obligations because of COVID-19.

Design/methodology/approach

Survey data, backed with interviews, is elicited from practicing estate surveyors and valuers and licensed property managers in Lagos, the largest property market in Nigeria and sub-Sahara Africa. Policy solutions and implications were solicited from personnel at the ministry of housing and senior professionals in the property sector. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, factor analysis and computer-aided qualitative data analysis, Atlas.ti.

Findings

Tenant’s health status is now accorded a priority together with others. Numbers of tenants are challenged with keeping to the prompt-rent-payment rule. Other areas of slight breaches included livestock rearing, subletting, alteration and repair covenants. Except for tenant reputation and tenant family size, there was no significant relationship between tenant’s health status consideration and the COVID-19 effect on tenant non-compliance with lease obligation. Tenants’ non-compliance with tenancy obligations has a connection with the tenants’ affordability, reputation, ability to sign an undertaking and health conditions during the pandemic. This paper recommends rental housing policy review.

Practical implications

It is recommended that the rental policy should be reviewed to give room for rental allowance or palliatives, private rental market regulation, exploration of the national housing fund and, if possible, social housing adoption policy in Nigeria.

Originality/value

This paper draws policymakers’ attention to the need to prepare for the future safety net that caters to citizenry welfare in challenging times.

中文翻译：

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COVID-19 是否会影响租户遵守租赁市场的租赁义务？物业经理的观点

目的

本文的目的是调查大流行如何影响租户对其租赁义务的反应。本文首先研究在 COVID-19 大流行期间采用的租户选择标准。然后，本文统计测试了选择标准与对大流行是否产生影响的反应之间是否存在关系。然后，本文调查了影响租户充分遵守尼日利亚租赁市场租赁协议能力的具体领域。最后，本文继续确认选择标准与租户因 COVID-19 导致的租赁义务不足的方面之间是否存在关系。

设计/方法/方法

调查数据以访谈为依据，来自尼日利亚和撒哈拉以南非洲最大的房地产市场拉各斯的执业房地产测量师和估价师以及持牌物业经理。向住房部人员和房地产部门的高级专业人员征求了政策解决方案和影响。使用描述性统计、因子分析和计算机辅助定性数据分析，Atlas.ti 对数据进行分析。

发现

租户的健康状况现在与其他人一起被优先考虑。许多租户在遵守即时支付租金规则方面面临挑战。其他轻微违反的领域包括牲畜饲养、转租、改建和维修契约。除了租户声誉和租户家庭规模外，租户的健康状况考虑与 COVID-19 对租户不遵守租赁义务的影响之间没有显着关系。租户不遵守租赁义务与大流行期间租户的负担能力、声誉、签署承诺的能力和健康状况有关。本文建议对租赁住房政策进行审查。

实际影响

建议对租赁政策进行审查，为租赁补贴或姑息治疗、私人租赁市场监管、国家住房基金的探索以及如果可能的话，尼日利亚的社会住房采用政策留出空间。

原创性/价值

本文提请政策制定者注意在充满挑战的时代为满足公民福利的未来安全网做好准备的必要性。