Built in the Open
The Model — How the Money Works
Big visions die when the numbers hide. So here are ours, end to end: the land, the buildings, the district, and the city's upkeep — every figure a published planning estimate, every pound protected by stage-gated escrow and independent verification.
Step 1 — Control the canvas
Real cities need real land. We benchmarked ours two ways — against existing cities, and bottom-up from every feature the plan contains — and both methods landed on the same number: ~25,000 hectares (250 km²), the size of a purpose-built capital's core. Unlike existing capitals, ours keeps a farm estate and a living forest inside.
The uplift engine — why the land pays for the city
Raw frontier land trades for pennies per square metre. Once master-planned, titled and serviced with roads, power and water, comparable Nigerian corridor land has historically traded at 100× and more. Servicing and releasing just 10% of Phase 1 at conservative serviced-land prices returns more than the entire canvas cost — which is why member money only ever has to do one job: secure the land first. Appreciation, anchor pre-lets and off-plan sales build the phases after that. No debt required.
Step 2 — Raise buildings by pool, at ~half market price
One shared residence: 10 storeys, 50 spacious flats, gym, crèche, shops below, solar + battery for 24/7 power, two lifts — complete and move-in ready for ≈ £1.5M all-in, every line item published. Fifty owners make it real; each owns their own titled flat.
| Why it costs ~half of market | The saving |
|---|---|
| Land at pool cost, secured at frontier prices in the land round | not at speculator prices |
| No developer margin — the owners ARE the developer | Afrisovera takes a flat, published 5% coordination fee |
| Afrisovera Builders workforce — our own trained, certified labour | the training ground IS the building site |
| Own materials — blocks, panels, joinery from the city's yards | the Manufacturing pillar at work |
| Bulk procurement — lifts, solar, sanitaryware for 20 blocks at once | never one at a time |
| No marketing costs — the community is the sales channel | you're reading it |
The protection — the anti-"burnt by a trusted person" machine
Every pool's money sits in escrow and is released only per verified construction stage — foundation 15% → frame 30% → envelope 20% → services 15% → finishes 15% → handover 5% — each signed off by an independent quantity surveyor, with photos published. Each block is its own property company with the owners as shareholders from day one, and every owner receives individual title on completion. No milestone, no money. Nobody's cousin ever touches it.
See it work — the pooling platform preview
Pools aren't only for buildings. The same machine raises the mall, the farm estate, the factories, the school, the wildlife reserve — pick a project, set the pool size, and watch a lifetime's cost become a monthly plan. Try the Co-Build Pools demo →
Step 3 — One district, funded by its own future residents
Step 4 — A city that maintains itself forever
Cities don't fail on opening day; they fail twenty years later, when nobody budgeted for the roads. Ours is endowed at birth: a city management company funded by tiered service charges nobody is priced out of, commercial rents, and published-tariff city utilities — with a sinking fund for major renewals built into the budget from day one.
| Per 1,000-home district, per year | Income | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Service charges (from ~£3/mo workforce to £150+/mo showcase) | £214k | |
| Shops, market & commercial rents + anchor service charges | £150k | |
| City-owned utilities margin (solar power, water, fibre at published tariffs) | £160k | |
| Roads, drainage, waste, security, parks, sewage, staff | £335k | |
| Sinking fund — resurfacing & plant renewal, banked every year | £160k | |
| Total | £524k | £495k |
The surplus plus a 1% resale transfer fee feeds the Infrastructure Renewal Fund — and the maintenance crews are Afrisovera Builders graduates. The pipeline that builds the city staffs its entire life. No donor. No decay.
What we bring, what we ask
To members
A home at ~half market price, escrow-protected, individually titled — and a stake in everything the city becomes.
To investors
Entry at frontier prices with a 100×-class uplift engine, stage-gated de-risking, and everything published — the first city is the template for ten.
To government
Major private investment with zero treasury ask, tens of thousands trained and employed, and the national frameworks — ITF training reimbursement, NEPZA Free-Trade-Zone status, NIPC Pioneer Status — pursued as the project reaches each stage.
To partner organisations
Serviced land, build-to-suit space, trained certified labour and published-tariff power for schools, industry, farms and logistics. See the partner offer →
Honesty first: every figure is an illustrative planning estimate grounded in published market research; final numbers come from professional quantity-surveyor cost plans and formal offer documents before any money is raised. Nothing here is financial advice or a securities offer; no money is being taken — expressions of interest only. Any future payment runs through Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, an FCA-authorised Electronic Money Institution; AFRISOVERA GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED (England & Wales, Co. No. 17244459) is not authorised by the FCA. Regulatory status →