Our Services

Our Amazing Services

Shelter Mart Ghana Ltd is a wholly-owned Ghanaian Company specializing in a bouquet of property-related services, ranging from property rentals to property management for both residential and commercial buildings. The company’s prime objective is to bring sanity and professionalism to the hitherto neglected and highly degraded property management and rental services.

Property Development

DESIGN & BUILD

Shelter Mart provides a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations who want to build their dream homes and offices.

Our team of professionals with integrated design-and-build skills set can cover a wide spectrum of projects from civil construction to refurbishments and interior decorations. Our unique module provides you an opportunity to make input throughout the various phases of the project. Your location is not a limitation. We provide regular updates through our online Project Management Portal for our clients. They get to monitor the progress of the work in the comfort of their homes.

Our clients also benefit from a dedicated project manager with varied experience chartered specialists, engineers, and specialized tradesmen. On-site delivery is supported by our strong in-house technical team, including architects, electrical and plumbing engineers, logistics, and procurement specialists. We get your project done to your taste at your pace!

WE DELIVER

Shelter Mart provides a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations who want to build their dream homes and offices.

We deliver excellent service in a unique way…..just count on us!

Our unique services have a direct impact on the bottom line of our clients by assisting them to optimize the use of their properties and eliminating precious man-hours spent by employees in searching for accommodation around the city. We possess the requisite resources and technological know-how that support speedy, efficient, and effective service delivery for your property service requirement.

Rent Advance Payment Scheme (Raps)

This scheme offers prospective tenants the opportunity to pay their rents on a monthly basis instead of the rent for longer periods demanded by landlords. The uniqueness of the product lies in the reprieve it gives prospective tenants over the burdensome issue of huge rent advances in the prevailing real estate market.

Low-income earners, as well as newly employed personnel, are bedeviled with the daunting task of sourcing huge sums of money to pay rent advances to landlords before securing accommodation. These monies are sometimes procured at very high interest coupled with endless frustration in the search for accommodation. Unlucky prospective tenants fall in the hands of the hoodlum and fraudsters and end up losing the money.

This product is completely eliminating the frustration and risk of the accommodation seeker by making available suitable premises with pre-arranged financing to cater for the rent advance. The prospective tenant only has to deposit three months of rent as a security deposit against any eventuality during the tenure of the rent. The security deposit shall be fully returned to the tenant at the successful completion of the lease term.

Facilities Management

Our service under this scheme allows organizations to off-load their maintenance services to us in order to focus on their core business. Shelter Mart offers a wide range of maintenance services under this scheme. The services encompass the following range of services:

Plumbing maintenance
Electrical Maintenance
Building fabric maintenance (Civil and building works)
Carpentry and roofing maintenance

Shelter Mart has a team of well-experienced professionals to handle the various maintenance requirements for the various types of buildings; residential, commercial, industrial, and factories.

Real Estate Valuation & Advisory Services

Shelter Mart offers a wide range of services to meet the needs of clients within the real estate industry. Each engagement is custom-tailored to ensure Accuracy, Independence, Consistency, and Accountability. We offer a unique blend of valuation and advisory experience along with our reputation for providing keen attention and expert consulting service.

We possess the unparalleled capability in accurately assessing and supporting the fair value of the real estate as well as providing transparent and independent expert consulting. Transparency of data and consistency of methodologies are particularly important. Our industry relationships as well as our extensive experience managing the valuation process for a number of reputable organizations makes us uniquely capable of providing valuation management and consulting services to our clients. We understand institutional valuation processes and as a result, offer the best in class valuation management services.

Property Rate Assessment & Collection

Local governments are tasked to supply a range of services – from those that exhibit mainly private goods to those that exhibit mainly public goods characteristics. Executing these tasks requires huge public expenditure and needs to be financed by citizens who demand these services. In most parts of the World, this is done through property taxation together with central government subventions. However, property rating in Ghana has failed to provide the expected bulk of local revenue to offset local government budget deficits and supplement the District Assemblies Common Fund at the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District levels.

The application of good governance is necessary to improve property rate administration as a reliable source of local government revenue and balancing factor to her budget deficits.

It is widely accepted that an effective and efficient revenue mobilization system at the local level is critical for the successful running of local government (Ellis et al., 2007; Oluwu & Wunsah, 2008). As part of Ghana’s fiscal decentralization, MMDAs are thus responsible for the generation of revenue to support their activities. This is to be achieved through the imposition of rates, taxes, and charges within their jurisdiction. MMDAs are empowered by the Local Government Act, 1993 (Act 462) to raise revenue internally under the leadership of elected members of the assembly or those appointed by the Metro/Municipal/District chief executive (MMDCE)

Property tax, like any other tax, is money most people would prefer not to pay if they could avoid it. But like every other tax, in an ideal system where all institutions actually perform the tasks they are responsible for conscientiously and without prejudice or bias, this is a very important source of funding for the government. Property rate is levied annually by local authorities on the estimated value of the property, depending on the classification of the area where the property is located.

The efficient property rate is hinged on the accuracy of the valuation and that if the assessment was not properly and professionally done the process would be flawed and also lend itself to many challenges resulting in potential revenue losses to the assembly.

Shelter Mart will utilize a web-based system for the project. This system is beneficial with greater transparency, convenience, timeliness, responsiveness. Using this software module the assembly would be afforded timely awareness about the Revenue Collection from time to time in a particular Revenue year. This software module generates various reports based on the Revenue Collection entries made over the period. This system module also gives a graphical representation of the data and its stores and backup the data easily. Key stakeholders of the assembly would be given access to the system for timely updates on the revenue collected so far.

Property Rate assessment and the collection has been one of the neglected areas of revenue generation at the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs). Shelter Mart possesses the requisite technical and professional capabilities for the assessment and collection of property rate for and on behalf of the (MDAs).

Real Estate Valuation & Advisory Services