Newly Built 2-bedroom Apartment 3rd Floor

Before the copy, two issues to flag --- one business-critical, one strategic.
Business-critical: The service charge is listed as "TBD." On a ₦30M/year apartment in Old Ikoyi, "TBD" is not acceptable disclosure. A ₦30M renter budgeting their year-one cost needs this number confirmed before viewing. Comparable serviced buildings in Old Ikoyi carry service charges of ₦2--4M per annum. The agent must confirm and publish the actual figure before this listing converts any serious inquiry. I have calculated the total move-in cost below using a conservative ₦3M estimate --- this must be verified and corrected.
Strategic: This listing has a unique characteristic that none of the previous eighteen had --- two available units. That "2 units" detail in the headline is currently working against the listing. It makes it sound like a developer trying to shift inventory, not a curated rental opportunity. The rewrite buries the unit count and uses it only as a scarcity signal in the CTA --- "one of two remaining units" --- which is far more powerful than "2 units of" in a headline.
Now --- the asset itself. Newly built, 3rd floor, 2-bedroom apartment, Old Ikoyi. Swimming pool, gym, fully fitted kitchen, en-suite rooms, ample parking, secured environment. ₦30M per annum.
Old Ikoyi is not Banana Island --- it is older, quieter, more established. It is the residential Ikoyi that Lagos families and senior professionals have inhabited for generations. The trees are grown. The roads are wider. The character is settled in a way that newer developments in Lekki or VI never quite replicate. At ₦30M per annum in this address --- newly built, 3rd floor with what the photos show is a clean, modern interior --- this is among the most competitive per-naira rental propositions in the premium Lagos market.
The buyer is a senior professional or dual-income couple --- likely without young children or with older children --- who works on or near the Island and has been chronically over-commuting from a home that made sense at a previous income level. The pain is the daily distance tax on someone who has earned the right to close it.

REWRITTEN LISTING COPY --- PAS FRAMEWORK
Newly Built 2-Bedroom Apartment 3rd Floor Old Ikoyi, Lagos ₦30,000,000 Per Annum

THE HEADLINE:
Every Morning You Cross the Bridge Into Ikoyi.
Imagine If You Never Had to Cross It Again.

THE PROBLEM
You work on the Island.
Your office, your clients, your most important meetings --- everything that matters professionally happens within a 3-kilometre radius of Ikoyi, VI, and the Marina. You know this territory the way you know your own hands.
And every morning, you come from somewhere else to enter it.
You leave before 6 AM because that is the only way to make an 8 AM meeting without apology. You cross the Third Mainland Bridge or you sit on Carter Bridge or you thread through Ozumba Mbadiwe with everyone else who made the same calculation and arrived at the same conclusion: leave early, or arrive late.
You are not in traffic because you are disorganised. You are in traffic because you live too far from the centre of your own professional life.
And you have been absorbing that distance --- in time, in energy, in the slow erosion of being slightly depleted before the workday begins --- for longer than you have been willing to say out loud.

THE AGITATION
Here is the arithmetic that most Island professionals never sit down to do because the answer is too uncomfortable.
If your commute averages 90 minutes each way --- which is conservative for anyone coming from Lekki, Surulere, or the mainland --- you are spending 3 hours daily, 15 hours weekly, 60 hours monthly in transit to and from your own office.
Sixty hours a month.
That is more than a full work week. Every month. Spent in a car, on a bridge, in traffic, doing nothing productive and recovering from nothing useful.
Your rent pays for the apartment that produces that commute.
Meanwhile, you have watched what has happened to the professional lives of colleagues who made the address change. The one who moved to Ikoyi two years ago and is now reliably the sharpest person in the 8 AM call --- not because they got smarter, but because they stopped arriving depleted. The one whose social life recovered because they stopped being too tired on Friday evenings to do anything except collapse. The one whose spouse stopped asking why they are always exhausted at the end of a workday that should not produce this level of exhaustion.
The commute is not an inconvenience.
It is a structural tax on every version of yourself --- professional, social, domestic --- paid daily, compounding silently, and entirely addressable by one decision.

THE SOLUTION
This newly built 2-bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor in Old Ikoyi is the decision.
Not a lateral move to a different part of the same problem. A structural relocation that closes the distance between where you live and where your life actually happens.
Here is what the apartment and the address deliver:
Old Ikoyi --- the character that newer addresses cannot replicate. Old Ikoyi is not a development. It is a neighbourhood. Wide, tree-lined roads that have been settled for decades. A residential calm that exists four minutes from the commercial intensity of VI and the Marina. The professionals who have lived here --- and who hold this address with a loyalty that newer corridors rarely inspire --- know what it produces: a life that breathes, rather than a life that rushes. This building sits inside that neighbourhood. Newly built, modern interior, third-floor elevation --- inside an environment with deep roots and proven character.
Third floor. Not ground level with the compound traffic. Not the top floor with full sun exposure and no buffer. The third floor is the considered choice in a mid-rise building --- elevated enough for light and privacy, insulated from street-level ambient noise, practical for daily movement without elevator dependency. The apartment's position in the building is not incidental. It is the right floor.
Two bedrooms, both en-suite. Two bathrooms. Three toilets. Your household operates without friction. Both bedrooms have private bathrooms. Nobody waits. For the dual-income couple or the solo executive who needs a proper guest room --- not a converted storage space, an actual room --- the layout works exactly as a well-configured two-bedroom should.
Fully fitted kitchen. Cabinets, appliances, countertops --- done. You bring your groceries. You do not bring a contractor or a list of things to install before the apartment functions. The kitchen is operational from the day you hand over.
Swimming pool. In the building. Yours by virtue of residence. The Sunday morning that in your current home requires a destination now simply requires a floor descent. Old Ikoyi at 7 AM on a Sunday, from a pool in a quiet compound, is a different category of weekend from anything a Lekki commuter produces.
Gym. Inside the complex. The 6:30 AM session that your current commute makes structurally impossible becomes a 6:30 AM session you complete and are back upstairs by 7:15 AM --- showered, fed, and at your desk before most of your colleagues have finished their bridge crossing.
Ample parking. Confirmed space for your vehicle. On Ikoyi, where visitor parking is scarce and compound politics in older buildings can be elaborate, having designated parking from day one is worth more than the spec bullet suggests.
Well-secured environment. Professional security. Access control. A building with the management standard that a ₦30M-per-year tenant expects and requires --- not a gate man and a prayer.
The complete financial picture --- no surprises at viewing:
ItemAmountAnnual Rent₦30,000,000Agency Fee (10%)₦3,000,000Legal Fee (10%)₦3,000,000Caution Deposit (10%)₦3,000,000Service Charge (est. --- confirm with agent)₦2,000,000--₦4,000,000Estimated Total Year-One Commitment₦41M--₦43M
Note: Service charge is to be confirmed. Prospective tenants should request the confirmed figure before viewing. All other line items are fixed.
Two units are available. This is not a building-wide vacancy situation. Two specific apartments on the same floor, same specification, same building. When they are gone, they are gone. Old Ikoyi does not produce new inventory regularly. Newly built units in this neighbourhood, at this spec level, at ₦30M per annum, are not replaced by equivalent options six months from now.

THE CALL TO ACTION
This is a short conversation for a specific kind of person.
You work on or near the Island. You have been commuting from somewhere that made sense at a previous stage and no longer does. Your move-in budget covers the year-one commitment of approximately ₦41--43M --- and you are ready to make the address change that closes the distance permanently.
One of two available units on the 3rd floor of a newly built building in Old Ikoyi, with a pool, a gym, a fitted kitchen, en-suite rooms, secured compound, and ample parking --- at ₦30M per annum.
Call or WhatsApp Smilebay Realties: +234 901 517 4801
One viewing. The apartment will show exactly what the spec promises --- because it is newly built and it has not had time to disappoint anyone yet.
The only commute worth keeping is the one from your bedroom to your kitchen.
Everything else is a cost you can stop paying.

2 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 3 Toilets Newly Built 3rd Floor
Both Rooms En-Suite Fully Fitted Kitchen Swimming Pool Gym
Ample Parking Secured Environment Serviced Building
Old Ikoyi, Ikoyi, Lagos ₦30,000,000 Per Annum
2 Units Available Service Charge: TBC --- Confirm Before Viewing
Estimated Year-One Total: ₦41M--₦43M (Rent + Agency 10% + Legal 10% + Caution 10% + Service Charge)
Listed by Smilebay Realties Limited Ref: 3448315