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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Built Environ.
Sec. Sustainable Design and Construction
Volume 10 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2024.1387295

Interaction of Drivers and Barriers of Sustainable Property Management Practice in Shopping Malls in Lagos, Nigeria

Provisionally accepted
Lumbani B Nyirenda Lumbani B Nyirenda 1Caleb A Ayedun Caleb A Ayedun 1Innocent Musonda Innocent Musonda 2Chukwuemeka O Iroham Chukwuemeka O Iroham 1David O. Olukanni David O. Olukanni 1Hilary I Okagbue Hilary I Okagbue 3*Olugbemisola W Samuel Olugbemisola W Samuel 3Sunday E Nto Sunday E Nto 3
  • 1 Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
  • 2 University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • 3 Sydani Group, Abuja, Nigeria

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    Extant studies on sustainable property management (SPM) are yet to be reported for shopping malls in developing countries. Shopping malls play a vital role in commercial activities in developing countries. This study investigates the strategies and the interaction of the drivers and barriers to SPM practice being adopted in the management of three randomly selected shopping malls in Lagos, Nigeria. The primary data utilized were elicited with the aid of a questionnaire served on 130 tenants of the three shopping malls. The obtained data were analyzed using statistical tools such as mean ranking, frequency distribution, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and mediation analysis. LED energy saving bulbs (90%) and green leasing (6.9%) are the most and least adopted features while using environmental cleaning procedures (83%) and adopting green leasing (36.4%) are the top and least SPM adopted strategy.Health and wellbeing of occupants (88.4%), cost savings (87%) and regulatory requirements (85%) were ranked the top three drivers while EFA grouped the factors into 2: direct and indirect. Financial and economic barrier (4.2/5) were top while cultural factors (3.97/5) were the least. The interactions of the latent barrier factors were exposed by the CFA and mediated regression models.In conclusion, this article explored SPM within shopping mall operations, presenting evidences that, while beneficial in reinforcing the relevance of sustainability in the real estate sector, ultimately contributes modestly to the broader academic discourse on the subject.

    Keywords: sustainability, confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis, Mediation, property management, Shopping mall

    Received: 28 Feb 2024; Accepted: 15 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Nyirenda, Ayedun, Musonda, Iroham, Olukanni, Okagbue, Samuel and Nto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hilary I Okagbue, Sydani Group, Abuja, Nigeria

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