Flat / apartment for rent
Furnished 4-Bedroom Penthouse
Lagos Has Been Looking Up at You From the Ground. It's Time You Looked Down at It From Above. The problem You have earned the view. Genuinely. By any honest measure --- the years put in, the deals closed, the targets met quarter after quarter --- you have earned a quality of life that reflects where you actually are professionally. And yet, most evenings, you come home to a building that does not know any of that. You park in a compound that smells like stagnant water after rain. You walk past a lobby that is functional at best. You close your front door and the sounds of the neighbourhood --- generators, gates, someone else's argument three flats away --- follow you in. The walls are thin. The ceiling is low. The view from your window is the building opposite. You have adapted. You have told yourself it is fine. You have focused on work, on the savings plan, on the investment you are going to make when the time is right. But here is what you have not said out loud: You are tired of living below the line of what you have built. The agitation The Ikate-Lekki corridor has some of the most compelling residential real estate in Lagos. It also has some of the most aggressively mediocre rental listings --- three-bedroom apartments described as "cozy" in buildings with tired finishes, packaged with access fees nobody mentioned upfront, and handed to tenants who pay and then spend the next twelve months managing what they were sold versus what they received. You have been in that cycle. Maybe not at the bottom of it. But somewhere in the middle --- a decent apartment, a decent location, a landlord who is mostly fine, a building that mostly works. Decent. Mostly. Fine. These are not the words of someone living at the level they have earned. And there is a specific moment --- usually late on a Wednesday, when you are sitting in a living room that is just slightly too small, in a building that is just slightly too ordinary, looking at a ceiling that is just slightly too close --- when you realise that "mostly fine" has been quietly eating your quality of life for years. Lagos does not give you back those years. It charges compound interest on every month you spend settling. The solution This fully furnished 4-bedroom penthouse in Ikate, Lekki is the category above everything you have been looking at. Not because of what it costs. Because of what it delivers --- at every hour of every day you live inside it. Here is what changes when you move in: You are on the top floor. The only person above you is the sky. In a city where vertical proximity to neighbours is a constant friction --- noise, odours, shared walls, the person upstairs who works night shifts --- being the penthouse means you have eliminated an entire category of living complaint. No one above you. Ever. This is more valuable than most tenants account for until they have experienced it. Four balconies. Four different angles on Lekki. Not a single token balcony off the master bedroom. Four dedicated outdoor spaces --- each giving you a different vantage point over Ikate, the coastal highway, and the Lekki skyline. Your morning coffee is not in a kitchen. It is on a balcony, elevated above a city that is just beginning to move, while you are already ahead of it. Your evening decompression is not on a sofa. It is in open air, watching Lagos settle. Four balconies is not an amenity. It is a daily ritual. It is fully furnished. Completely. You are not sourcing a sofa. You are not hunting for a bed frame. You are not spending your first three weekends in a new apartment at furniture markets on the island. You show up with your bags, your people, and your routines. The home is ready. Your life continues without interruption. Four bedrooms. Four bathrooms. Five toilets. Room for your family to live fully. A dedicated guest room that doesn't require anyone to vacate their space. A home office that is a room, not a corner. Four en-suite bathrooms means four people can begin their mornings simultaneously without a single negotiation. Coastal Highway access --- direct. This is not a secondary benefit. This is a primary logistical upgrade. The Coastal Road bypasses the Lekki-Epe expressway entirely. When the expressway is locked from Chevron to Admiralty Way --- and it will be, regularly, because it always is --- you are on a different route. This is not geography. This is time. It is the difference between arriving at your 8 AM meeting intact versus arriving at 8:47 AM apologising. Next to a supermarket. Practical, not glamorous --- but essential for a household that runs at pace. Groceries are not a Saturday expedition. They are a Tuesday evening stop on the way in. Now the full financial picture --- disclosed upfront, no surprises at viewing: Annual rent: ₦27,000,000 Service charge: ₦1,700,000 Agency fee (10%): ₦2,700,000 Legal fee (10%): ₦2,700,000 Caution deposit (10%): ₦2,700,000 Total move-in requirement: ₦36,800,000 No double deposit. This is explicitly stated and it matters. Double deposit demands --- two years' rent upfront --- are a growing practice in the premium Lagos rental market that drains liquidity and poisons the tenant-landlord relationship before the lease even begins. This landlord has declined that structure. One year's rent, standard caution, clean agreement. That is a meaningful concession at this level and it should be read as one. A video walkthrough is available before your viewing. The call to action There is one penthouse in this building. It is furnished, move-in ready, and sitting at the top of a building in one of Lekki's most established residential pockets, with four balconies and coastal highway access. The total move-in commitment is ₦36.8 million. If that number is within your current liquidity --- and you are ready to stop living in the category below where your career has placed you --- this is a same-week decision. Request the video walkthrough first if you need it. Then schedule the viewing. Call or WhatsApp Smilebay Realties: +234 901 517 4801 Because the gap between where you live and where you have earned the right to live is not fixed by waiting. It is fixed by one decision, made in the right moment. This is that moment. 4 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 5 Toilets Penthouse Floor Fully Furnished 4 Balconies Panoramic Views Coastal Highway Access Supermarket Adjacent Ikate, Lekki, Lagos ₦27M Per Annum + ₦1.7M Service Charge Total Move-In: ₦36.8M No Double Deposit Video Available Listed by Smilebay Realties Limited Ref: 3488286
