Our story

Renting a home in Abuja, without the guesswork.

CicilyHomes Estates was built after watching too many tenants pay agent fees twice and too many landlords lose weeks to unserious inquiries. We set out to fix that with verification, transparency, and technology that actually holds people accountable.

Clarity

Every price, fee, and clause is visible before anyone signs anything. No fine print designed to confuse.

Trust

Every landlord is document-verified and every agreement is stored as a tamper-proof smart contract.

Sustainability

We build for the long term — for landlords who want reliable income and tenants who want to stay.

Since 2025

Built in Abuja, for Abuja's rental market.

CicilyHomes Estates started as a simple question: why does renting a home here still involve so much uncertainty? Fake listings, agents demanding fees from both sides, and landlords with no visibility into who they're renting to.

Today, we verify every landlord's identity and property documents, store every agreement as a smart contract, and give tenants a transparent view of costs from the first search. It's a small team with a specific focus: make renting in Abuja something you don't have to worry about.

Every landlord verified by hand
Not an algorithm — a person on our team checks identity and property documents before anything goes live.
Agreements as smart contracts
Every rental agreement is stored transparently, so what was agreed is never in dispute.
A small, hands-on team
We're early — every submission is reviewed by a real person, not lost in a queue.
Trust & safety

How verification works

We want to be upfront about exactly what "Verified" means today, and what it will mean as we roll out further automated checks.

Landlord identity

Every landlord submits a national ID number and our team manually cross-checks the submitted documents before a property can go live. Automated real-time government ID verification is on our roadmap but not yet enabled.

Property documents

Landlords upload a recent utility bill for the property. Our team reviews it against the listing details before approval. Automated OCR/utility-account matching is on our roadmap but not yet enabled.

Admin approval

A property only appears in public search once a CicilyHomes Estates team member has explicitly reviewed and approved both the landlord's identity submission and the property's documents.

"Verified" today reflects a real human review process, not an automated government-ID or utility-account check. We'll clearly badge listings differently once those automated integrations go live.

The people behind it

Meet the team

Chukwuemeka Nze
Chukwuemeka Nze
founder of CicilyHomes Estates
Khadija Bekkali
Khadija Bekkali
Co-founder & developer
Ebube Oramah
Ebube Oramah
Financial Analyst/ Founding finance lead
Sophie Obiorah
Sophie Obiorah
UX Researcher/ Data Analyst

Want to work with us?

Whether you're renting or listing, we'd love to have you on the platform.